沙伦·莫勒姆,博士,获奖科学家、医生,以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合,以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成30余种语言。
发表于2024-11-21
Survival of the Sickest 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
每一种生物都有两种最基本的需求:生存和繁殖。当生物体试图提高生存和繁殖的概率时,进化便发生了。有时候一种生物体的存活是对另一种生物体的死刑判决,因此任何一个物种的进化都会对成百上千的其他物种造成进化压力。 对一个没有伤口或皮肤破损的成年人而言,感染途径主要包...
评分怀孕的头几天至关重要,在这段时间内,胎儿会有很多重要的基因给打开或者关闭。假如一位刚怀孕的母亲,在开始的几个星期只吃典型的垃圾食品,胎儿接受到的信息是: 出生后的环境将是艰难的,那将导致各种基因被开启与关闭,来适应出生后的艰难环境。导致婴儿出生时体积较小,所...
评分生命,本就是一种妥协。科学就是不断修正,我们在批判前人结论的基础上建设。进化只是解决当时一个问题,并不是全面的。我们体内遗留的一些基因只是保障我们明天不死,而不是40年后不死。就像那句话“那些杀不死我们的,迟早会杀死我们”。David M·Buss的《进化心理学》也可以...
评分 评分转发至国学数典论坛 血色沉着病是西欧常见的遗传病,导致铁质在体内积累达到超载地步,长时间会导致破坏肝脏和胰脏。有人用放血的方式,可以降低血液中的铁含量,减轻病症。 为什么大自然进化没有消灭这种疾病?原因就在于这种疾病是一种次优平衡选择,让我们避免今天...
图书标签: 英文原版 科普 医学 健康 进化论 科学 方法 医疗
Synopsis
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we're exiled when we're not 'healthy.' The truth, I intend to show you, is much more interesting and encouraging." His research will reveal that many common diseases are in fact complicated blessings. In considering the question of why diseases exist, Moalem proposes that most common diseases came into existence for very good reasons. Diabetes, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia all may exist because at some point they helped our ancestors survive some grand challenge to human existence. In turn, he also discovered that genetic and cultural differences have led to each race having different and unique ways of reacting to their environment and subsequently how they become susceptible to certain diseases.
With mesmerizing insight, Moalem demonstrates how diabetes may be a by-product of a mechanism that helped humans survive the Ice Age, why African Americans living in the north might suffer from vitamin D deficiencies, and why Asians can't drink as much alcohol as Europeans. Information in this book is extremely timely, such as Moalem's exploration of the Avian Flu, a disease that threatens to be the world's next great pandemic. Revelatory and written in an utterly engaging fashion, Sharon Moalem's book will change the way we think about our own bodies.
作为科普读物,内容很深入。作者总能衍生到很远的地方再拐回来,这个写作手法很新鲜。但我可能不会推荐周围的朋友,“转座子”、“表观遗传学”、“细胞程序性凋亡”这些概念的出现,已经让这本书进入半专业水平,略难。
评分这本书加上selfish genes, 我觉得业余遗传爱好者就可以无敌了~
评分大学学了两门进化论,发现还有新东西
评分这本书加上selfish genes, 我觉得业余遗传爱好者就可以无敌了~
评分作为科普读物,内容很深入。作者总能衍生到很远的地方再拐回来,这个写作手法很新鲜。但我可能不会推荐周围的朋友,“转座子”、“表观遗传学”、“细胞程序性凋亡”这些概念的出现,已经让这本书进入半专业水平,略难。
Survival of the Sickest 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书