Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and,until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology. He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, and most recently, The God Delusion.
In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.
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可能是閱讀傾嚮的問題,對我來說這本書相比《自私的基因》可讀性要高的多——雖然是接近30W字的長篇幅科普讀物,讀起來卻非常順暢,連作者的零星的幽默感我也很好的get√瞭。 個人覺得良好的閱讀感不光來自作者成熟的寫作風格,更多是得益於作者良好的邏輯思維能力,在對神創論...
評分地球上唯一的娛樂,地球上最偉大的錶演。BBC專門以“地球上最偉大的錶演”為名,邀請全球頂級科學傢、哲學傢錄製交響麯,製作紀錄片全球發布(霍金、道金斯也在邀請之列),“地球上最偉大的錶演”繼“自私的基因”之後又將成為固定詞組。 沒有想到這本書的書名也有故事。道金...
評分道金斯的幾本書糾正瞭我的一係列錯誤觀點。 1、生物有所謂高級和低級之分。人類中心論。人比蟑螂高級,不過如果美蘇腦子抽筋互發核彈,人類死光瞭,蟑螂可能還能生存,到底誰高級呢? 2、人是有猴子進化來的。峨眉山上那些討厭的猴子跟人類祖先不是同一種猴子啦,人與現在的猴...
圖書標籤: 科普 進化論 生物 RichardDawkins evolution Richard_Dawkins science 英文原版
進化論方麵的一部科普讀物,雖然不錯,但是很多理論並無新意。
評分In the arms of the angel Fly away from here
評分佳作,最後一章選擇物種起源第一版的那一段精彩結尾逐句展開,充滿哲思,書到結尾,故事卻隻是開始,當作如是觀
評分本書非常易讀,英文用詞淺顯易懂,案例豐富有趣。不過結構並不非常嚴謹,不是一個有係統介紹進化論的著作。綜閤看來非常符閤其“給教育程度一般的大眾駁斥上帝造物說”的定位。 Evolution is the combination of random variation and non-random passing of genetic information.
評分Dawkins 的東西質量還是有保證。看過瞭他的God Delusion,覺得講得很透,邏輯嚴密。結果再看這本還是有收獲。
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