理查德·道金斯(Richard Dawkins,1941— )
英国皇家科学院院士,牛津大学首席西蒙尼“公众理解科学教授”,进化论生物学家。他是英国著名科学作家,几乎每本书都是畅销书,并经常在各大媒体引起轰动。2005年,英国《前景》杂志会同美国《外交政策》杂志评选出在世的全球100名最有影响力的公共知识分子,道金斯赫然在列。
1976年出版的《自私的基因》是他最重要的代表作,他的基因观念颠覆了我们对自身的认知,深刻影响了整整一个时代。其他主要作品有《祖先的故事》《延伸的表型》《盲眼钟表匠》《地球上最伟大的表演》《解析彩虹》《魔鬼的牧师》《攀登不可能的山峰》《超越上帝》等。
黄可仁(Yan Wong)
英国进化论生物学家,在牛津大学师从道金斯,并与其合著《祖先的故事》。曾任教于利兹大学,现为广播电视主持人,致力于科学普及。
发表于2025-03-30
The Ancestor's Tale 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
谁是我们的祖先?这个问题取决于“我们”是谁。如果“我们”指的是现存的14亿中国人,那么离我们最近的共同祖先可能就是从黄帝、炎帝到秦始皇的某个人(或某群人)。这个答案似乎并不出人意料,可是它是怎么得出的呢? 根据《祖先的故事》这本书的介绍:科学家们通过DNA技术的...
评分原作其实之前已经看过了,但是是扫描 + OCR 然后一些图片也被吞了。在图书馆看到有中文翻译版 (虽然早就有了。。。) 还是去看了一遍。 翻译基本上不算差,但是各种界门纲目科属种不分我实在不能容忍了。 就像 Concestor 5 (好像是吧) 的所有后代是 Catarrhine (作为分类单位...
评分除了会合点0花了100多页讲智人的表亲外,在最关键的原口动物和后口动物的会合点26也花了大约100页讲了演化和天择最匪夷所思的故事,科学家称之为演化丑闻。因为有一种活到现在的“动物”,花了几亿年用无性生殖的方式种化出300多种动物。原本讲的好好的演化故事要绞尽脑汁编出...
评分内容翔实,信息量非常大,优美的语言,并配有漂亮的插图。另一有趣的地方是采用了倒述的手法,借用英国诗人乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》的表现方式,让各种生物回到过去,在不同的汇合点相聚,朝拜共同的祖先。 最喜欢的地方还在于每到一个汇合点,Richard Dawkins都会选择一个物...
评分这本书的作者也是《自私的基因》的作者,道金斯的大名应该不用再多吹了,单说书的内容。还没看完,已经被作者的清晰思路和广博学识折服,对我来说,无疑是打开了看待生物进化的全新视角,更重要的是,这本书读起来还挺有意思,这一点应该摆在推荐的首位。当然啦,还要赞一下装...
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The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism. Dawkins's brilliant, inventive approach allows us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in a bracingly novel way. It also lets him shed bright new light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory: sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and more. The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a fascinating history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.
Very fun to read, recommended for everyone who wants to have a panorama view of evolutionary biology.
评分Very fun to read, recommended for everyone who wants to have a panorama view of evolutionary biology.
评分Very fun to read, recommended for everyone who wants to have a panorama view of evolutionary biology.
评分Very fun to read, recommended for everyone who wants to have a panorama view of evolutionary biology.
评分Very fun to read, recommended for everyone who wants to have a panorama view of evolutionary biology.
The Ancestor's Tale 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书