The Sixth Extinction 在线电子书 图书标签: 科普 英文原版 古生物 Environmental 历史 自然科学 生物 Biology
发表于2025-02-05
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听有声书听完的,值得再细读一遍。
评分3星半,和预期的很不一样,要重读一下。
评分听有声书听完的,值得再细读一遍。
评分主题很吸引人,但讲起来很那做到平易近人,因为牵涉到太多专业背景知识。作者就像讲故事一样娓娓道来,读起来让人欲罢不能。非常好的一本科普读物。对于大灭绝,人总是站在统治者的位置上觉得这不能发生在自己身上,可是就像《三体》里说的,“死亡才是永恒的”。这个过程也许就是不可避免的,正所谓天道轮回。你都说不清如今这个状态究竟是这个必然过程中的一种表现方式还是人的自掘坟墓。
评分Enchanting descriptions about the trips and interesting people are the best part. Dying bats in caverns. Snorkeling amid coral reefs. Wading marshes to catch the amphibians.
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
对于这本书的首要感受,就是这个书名和封面让人完全提不起兴趣看……但是读了之后真的手不释卷啊。 作为一本科普书,这本写的可谓出彩,获得普利策奖当之无愧。 首先作者的文笔真的很优美,无论是描述自然环境,写历史,还是各种反思,都有一种美感。而且虽然从内容来看,作者...
评分大巴车在大西北的戈壁滩上飞驰,连续八个小时四周一颗草都看不见。没有漫天的飞沙,天也是那么的蓝,只有风化的石柱和地上析出的点点盐晶在诉说着这片土地的贫瘠。我一直在想,这片土地上物种数量公式cA^z的系数是不是零。 读这本书的绝大部份时间,我在青海甘肃游的大巴车上度...
评分课程作业,写完就贴上来了 他们进攻西洋杉时,吉尔伽美什砍到了森林中的第一棵树,恩基杜清除了直到幼发拉底河河岸的树根。 ——《吉尔伽美什之死》 这本书很早之前就读过了,当时应该是大一,和诸位年轻的朋友一样,一知半解的看下去,增长了不少知识。过了两年,修了古生物学...
评分作为书的译者,给自己的书写书评是件多多少少有些奇怪的事情。本以为无话可说,但等到落笔时才发现,想说的很多。一本书的译者大概也是最仔细的一位读者,一个词也不曾放过。然而越是读得仔细,越是有无数的想法,却受困于译者的身份,无处倾吐。借书评之机,随便说说吧。 (...
评分大巴车在大西北的戈壁滩上飞驰,连续八个小时四周一颗草都看不见。没有漫天的飞沙,天也是那么的蓝,只有风化的石柱和地上析出的点点盐晶在诉说着这片土地的贫瘠。我一直在想,这片土地上物种数量公式cA^z的系数是不是零。 读这本书的绝大部份时间,我在青海甘肃游的大巴车上度...
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