Carl Zimmer is a columnist for the New York Times, writes for National Geographic and other magazines, and is the author of thirteen books, including Parasite Rex, Soul Made Flesh, and Microcosm. He is also a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches writing about science and the environment.
The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest living things known to science, yet they can hold the entire planet in their sway.
A Planet of Viruses is Carl Zimmer's eye-opening look at the hidden world of viruses. Zimmer, the popular science writer and author of National Geographic's award-winning blog The Loom, has updated this edition to include the stories of new outbreaks, such as Ebola, MERS, and chikungunya virus; new scientific discoveries, such as a hundred-million-year-old virus that infected the common ancestor of armadillos, elephants, and humans; and new findings that show why climate change may lead to even deadlier outbreaks. Zimmer's lucid explanations and fascinating stories demonstrate how deeply humans and viruses are intertwined. Viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, are responsible for many of our most devastating diseases, and will continue to control our fate for centuries. Thoroughly readable, and as reassuring as it is frightening, A Planet of Viruses is a fascinating tour of a formidable hidden world.
發表於2024-11-23
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2020注定成為曆史上濃重的一筆。2020使全中國的所有人對病毒有瞭新的認知,但或許不應該隻停留在對病毒的恐懼上。從網絡社交的謠言四起到身邊人的倉惶不安,仿佛所有人對COVID-19都談虎色變。人類的認識從最初的煙花草野病毒到如今的COVID-19,其間古老的天花病毒、西班牙大流...
評分病毒星球 卡爾·齊默 18個筆記 老朋友 所有人鼻病毒的核心遺傳信息都一樣,這些核心信息隨時間變化並不多,但同時,鼻病毒基因組中有些部分卻演化得非常快。這些基因序列似乎能幫助病毒躲過我們免疫係統的截殺。哪怕人體製造齣能抵抗一種病毒株的抗體,另一些病毒株也能攻入人...
評分一、病毒(Virus)名詞的起源: “病毒”這個詞是自相矛盾的,承自羅馬帝國,當時的意思是蛇的毒液或者人的精液。它原本就包含瞭兩麵性,一麵是能給予生命的物質,另一麵則代錶緻命的毒液。病毒在某種意義上的確是緻命的,但它們也賦予瞭這個世界必不可少的創造力。創造和毀滅...
評分有意思的科普書,沒看這本書之前對於病毒的印象隻有來自高中生物書上的,病毒是DNA或RNA與蛋白質組成的非細胞生物,想到病毒就是緻病病毒,往往談病毒色變。所以看到作者在引言裏說:“‘病毒’這個詞也是自相矛盾。它承自羅馬帝國,當時的意思是蛇的毒液或者人的精液。這一個...
圖書標籤: 科普 virology 英文原版 科學 病毒 生物學 普及讀物 醫學
•很好的科普讀本 有一點初高中生物知識就可以看懂 •語言平實 敘述生動 每一章篇幅不長 有點像讀公眾號文章???? 甚至還有各種神轉摺???? •跟著作者瞭解瞭病毒與人類、動物相愛相殺的關係 看完有種過癮的感覺——這種感覺來自對自然界中基因復製交換這個偉大過程的敬畏 也來自病毒對我們呼吸的空氣、與胎生動物的潛在關聯給我帶來的驚訝 總結作者的觀點就是病毒有害也有益 •奇怪的知識大幅增加瞭
評分纔一百多頁的病毒星球在豆瓣閱讀上竟然賣到三十多塊,被逼著隻能看原版瞭;介紹瞭煙草花葉病毒、人鼻病毒HRV,流感病毒,人乳頭瘤病毒HPV,噬菌體,內源性逆轉錄病毒ERV,HIV,西尼羅河病毒,埃博拉病毒,SARS病毒,MERS病毒,天花病毒,巨型病毒(其中兩個名字讓人印象深刻: mamavirus和mimivirus)
評分科普類文章,卻很有哲思。當下閱讀很應景。
評分纔一百多頁的病毒星球在豆瓣閱讀上竟然賣到三十多塊,被逼著隻能看原版瞭;介紹瞭煙草花葉病毒、人鼻病毒HRV,流感病毒,人乳頭瘤病毒HPV,噬菌體,內源性逆轉錄病毒ERV,HIV,西尼羅河病毒,埃博拉病毒,SARS病毒,MERS病毒,天花病毒,巨型病毒(其中兩個名字讓人印象深刻: mamavirus和mimivirus)
評分之前買瞭中文版的,這次趁著疫情找到瞭英文版的迴頭再溫習。看完之後整個人平靜瞭很多,我們每個人都隻是這個時代洪流中的一個小分子,看瞭人類和病毒漫長的交戰曆史,人類大部分是輸瞭的,some perhaps pure luck, 所以該怎麼過還是怎麼過吧,做好自己的部分就好瞭。 Don't panic, just grab your towel.
A Planet of Viruses 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載