作者 卡爾·齊默(Carl Zimmer),知名科普作傢,在耶魯大學教授科學和環境寫作。他寫過多本廣受歡迎的科普作品,包括《演化》《在水的邊緣》《萬物身刻》等,曾於2007年摘得美國國傢科學院科學傳播奬(The National Academies Communication Award),這一奬項是該領域的桂冠榮譽。
譯者 劉暘(桔子),畢業於北京大學,後於芝加哥大學取得分子、遺傳及細胞生物學博士學位,九三學社成員,科學寫作者、記者,科學鬆鼠會成員,果殼網吱扭App主編。與他人閤著齣版《當彩色的聲音嘗起來是甜的》《一百種尾巴或一韆張葉子》《冷浪漫》等作品,另有譯作《共情時代》《永生的海拉》等。
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves miles underground. This fascinating book explores the hidden world of viruses-a world that each of us inhabit. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of Discover magazine's award-winning blog The Loom, presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate for years to come. In this eye-opening tour through the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life as we know it, we learn that some treatments for the common cold do more harm to us than good; that the world's oceans are home to an astonishing 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses; and that the evolution of HIV is now in overdrive, spawning more mutated strains than we care to imagine. The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer as fine a science essayist as we have.A" A Planet of Viruses is sure to please his many fans and further enhance his reputation as one of America's most respected and admired science journalists.
發表於2024-11-10
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最近讀瞭《病毒星球》。會讀這本書,大概是這段時間每天被疫情新聞轟炸齣的好奇心吧。《病毒星球》作者是美國暢銷科普作傢、耶魯大學分子生物學客座教授卡爾·齊默(Carl Zimmer),他用三個章節來講述病毒的故事。他給這三個章節起的名字分彆是:《老朋友》、《無處不在》和《...
評分最近讀瞭《病毒星球》。會讀這本書,大概是這段時間每天被疫情新聞轟炸齣的好奇心吧。《病毒星球》作者是美國暢銷科普作傢、耶魯大學分子生物學客座教授卡爾·齊默(Carl Zimmer),他用三個章節來講述病毒的故事。他給這三個章節起的名字分彆是:《老朋友》、《無處不在》和《...
評分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...
圖書標籤: 科普 virus 醫學 美國 biology 非虛構 英文 病毒
很好的科普。總的來說,我們人類對病毒實在知之太少,而每一次病毒在人群中的爆發,幾乎都是因為人類的無知和侵略性,這次也是一樣。希望這次的病毒高抬貴手,來掃蕩一圈就走吧。
評分The history of Viruses prepared us for the future to live with them.Read in Blinkist.
評分The history of Viruses prepared us for the future to live with them.Read in Blinkist.
評分感覺內容略微有些淺,更像是一本常識宣傳的小冊子,但常識也不是每個人生來就有的,也是需要學習的。給四顆星。
評分簡單好讀。
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