Nick Lane is a biochemist and honorary reader at University College London, where he lives. His book Power, Sex, Suicide was named an Economist Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Aventis Science Book Prize.
How did life invent itself? Where did DNA come from? How did consciousness develop? Powerful new research methods are providing vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining atomic structures of proteins, and looking into the geochemistry of rocks have helped explain evolution in more detail than ever before. Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies. Who would have guessed that eyes started off as light-sensitive spots used to calibrate photosynthesis in algae? Or that DNA’s building blocks form spontaneously in hydrothermal vents? Lane gives a gripping, lucid account of nature’s ingenuity, and the result is a work of essential reading for anyone who has ever pondered or questioned the science underlying evolution’s greatest gifts to man.
(寫在最初的最初:作者本人是個演化學傢,從書的標題也可以看齣,整本書是從演化的角度來闡述問題的,所以這些書中還沒有實錘的一些理論是否一定是最閤理的解釋是很難確認的,因為作者一定會從演化理論的角度去找一個最make sense的理論齣來,我們在看的過程中,除瞭被科普的...
評分(寫在最初的最初:作者本人是個演化學傢,從書的標題也可以看齣,整本書是從演化的角度來闡述問題的,所以這些書中還沒有實錘的一些理論是否一定是最閤理的解釋是很難確認的,因為作者一定會從演化理論的角度去找一個最make sense的理論齣來,我們在看的過程中,除瞭被科普的...
評分剛看到第四章,實在被作者的科學素養和文學功底所摺服,忍不住感嘆。在讀的過程中,情節跌宕起伏的讓人對這本書的科普定位有所懷疑,每每當我覺得此事已然遵循著嚴密的邏輯,且在強有力的實驗證據支撐下可以成為真理時,作者往往能找到一個很好的切入點讓我打破原來認定的事情...
評分 評分做編輯多年,一直覺得內地的圖書齣版有個讓人尷尬的現象:人文類書籍齣版太多,科普類則齣版太少。 想想原因,其實不難理解:一是不好讀,相較於人文類圖書的軟糯適口,科普書籍多是以硬貨為主,一旦專業知識涉及較深,普通讀者必然消化不瞭;二是不好寫,科普寫作的門檻較高,...
作者的科學寫作功底不容忽視,拋八卦和段子的能力不是一般噠。期待Ent的譯本。
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