John Whitfield is a London-based science writer. After 6 years covering evolution, ecology, and conservation for the journal Nature, his work now appears in numerous prestigious publications including Science, Discover, New Scientist, London Review of Books, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, and BBC Wildlife Magazine. He holds a Ph.D. in insect evolution from the University of Cambridge and plays in one of the world’s leading gamelan orchestras. In the Beat of a Heart is his first book.
For centuries, scientists have dreamt of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Science now offers powerful explanations for both the dazzling diversity and striking similarities seen in the living world.
Life is complicated. It is truly the "entangled bank" that Charles Darwin described. But scientists are now discovering that energy is the unifying force that joins all life on Earth. Visionary biologists have advanced a new theory that explains how the natural world—from the tiniest amoeba to the greatest rain forest—is constructed, providing a fresh perspective on the essential interconnectivity of living systems.
This revolutionary theory explains a variety of phenomena – helping us understand why a shrew eats its bodyweight in food each day, why a mammal's heart beats about 1 billion times in its lifetime, why there are no trees as tall as the Eiffel tower, and why more species live at the Earth’s equator than at its poles. By looking at how living things use energy, we can answer these and myriad other intriguing questions. In the Beat of a Heart combines biography, history, science and nature writing to capture the exciting advances—and the people who are making them—that are triggering a revolution as potentially important to biology as Newton’s insights were to physics.
談起生物學,人們往往會想到DNA、蛋白質、細胞等微觀的東西,但是近幾十年的係統生態學的發展卻告訴我們,針對生態係統整體,仍然存在著很多漂亮的數學規律。 我們都知道,大象體積龐大,他每天需要消耗的能量也大,他的活動相對緩慢,他的懷孕、生育周期相對較長。而老鼠個頭...
評分談起生物學,人們往往會想到DNA、蛋白質、細胞等微觀的東西,但是近幾十年的係統生態學的發展卻告訴我們,針對生態係統整體,仍然存在著很多漂亮的數學規律。 我們都知道,大象體積龐大,他每天需要消耗的能量也大,他的活動相對緩慢,他的懷孕、生育周期相對較長。而老鼠個頭...
評分談起生物學,人們往往會想到DNA、蛋白質、細胞等微觀的東西,但是近幾十年的係統生態學的發展卻告訴我們,針對生態係統整體,仍然存在著很多漂亮的數學規律。 我們都知道,大象體積龐大,他每天需要消耗的能量也大,他的活動相對緩慢,他的懷孕、生育周期相對較長。而老鼠個頭...
評分談起生物學,人們往往會想到DNA、蛋白質、細胞等微觀的東西,但是近幾十年的係統生態學的發展卻告訴我們,針對生態係統整體,仍然存在著很多漂亮的數學規律。 我們都知道,大象體積龐大,他每天需要消耗的能量也大,他的活動相對緩慢,他的懷孕、生育周期相對較長。而老鼠個頭...
評分談起生物學,人們往往會想到DNA、蛋白質、細胞等微觀的東西,但是近幾十年的係統生態學的發展卻告訴我們,針對生態係統整體,仍然存在著很多漂亮的數學規律。 我們都知道,大象體積龐大,他每天需要消耗的能量也大,他的活動相對緩慢,他的懷孕、生育周期相對較長。而老鼠個頭...
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