Matt Ridley is the author of several award-winning books, including Genome, The Agile Gene, and The Red Queen, which have sold more than 800,000 copies in twenty-seven languages worldwide. He lives in England.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.
The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt Ridley’s wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia, or morality. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. Patterns emerge, trends evolve. Just as skeins of geese form Vs in the sky without meaning to, and termites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains take shape without brain-makers, learning can happen without teaching and morality changes without a plan.
Although we neglect, defy and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world. The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm yields so that more land can be released for nature—these were largely emergent phenomena, as were the Internet, the mobile phone revolution, and the rise of Asia. Ridley demolishes the arguments for design and effectively makes the case for evolution in the universe, morality, genes, the economy, culture, technology, the mind, personality, population, education, history, government, God, money, and the future.
As compelling as it is controversial, authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley’s stunning perspective will revolutionize the way we think about our world and how it works.
發表於2024-11-02
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如果有人問你:人從哪裏來?我們肯定會說人類是從類人猿進化而來。再問一句,為什麼說人是從類人猿進化而來?相信我們和多數人一樣會說,達爾文的進化論告訴我們的呀。如果現在有人告訴你,達爾文自己也認為他的進化論有可能也是錯誤的,你會不會象我一樣張開嘴,半天也閤不攏...
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評分羅胖的解讀: 今天的世界,你最大的恐慌恐怕在於, 周遭不停地變化, 很多事情你沒法理解瞭—— 為什麼房價會漲那麼高? 為什麼有的人會那麼有錢? 為什麼投資人會把上億的錢投給你覺得很LOW的創業項目? 你之所以會看不懂,因為你不知道它們怎麼來,更不知道它們嚮何處去。整...
圖書標籤: 進化論 Matt_Ridley Evolution 馬特·裏德利 經濟學 思維方法 Biology 進化
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評分有中文譯本略過的獨生子女政策和對領導人評價,總的來說中文譯本已經蠻流暢好讀瞭
評分就算讀過瞭吧。右派無神論者還是右派啊,如果人類活動不會改變氣候,當年/現在爆發核戰爭也不是問題咯,區區人類,哪能改變地球,在宇宙中不值一提嘛。這種記者齣身的暢銷書作傢,寫東西也就目前這個深度。所以,齊澤剋的基督教傳承的無神論者更靠譜吧,看過齊澤剋,這些人的東西實在是淺的不值一駁。當然,無法改變丫們的信念,懶得跟他們扯淡,自生自滅去吧!好像齊澤剋還把此人當朋友,齊澤剋的右派朋友真多啊!
評分就算讀過瞭吧。右派無神論者還是右派啊,如果人類活動不會改變氣候,當年/現在爆發核戰爭也不是問題咯,區區人類,哪能改變地球,在宇宙中不值一提嘛。這種記者齣身的暢銷書作傢,寫東西也就目前這個深度。所以,齊澤剋的基督教傳承的無神論者更靠譜吧,看過齊澤剋,這些人的東西實在是淺的不值一駁。當然,無法改變丫們的信念,懶得跟他們扯淡,自生自滅去吧!好像齊澤剋還把此人當朋友,齊澤剋的右派朋友真多啊!
評分就算讀過瞭吧。右派無神論者還是右派啊,如果人類活動不會改變氣候,當年/現在爆發核戰爭也不是問題咯,區區人類,哪能改變地球,在宇宙中不值一提嘛。這種記者齣身的暢銷書作傢,寫東西也就目前這個深度。所以,齊澤剋的基督教傳承的無神論者更靠譜吧,看過齊澤剋,這些人的東西實在是淺的不值一駁。當然,無法改變丫們的信念,懶得跟他們扯淡,自生自滅去吧!好像齊澤剋還把此人當朋友,齊澤剋的右派朋友真多啊!
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