Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist renowned throughout the world. He was educated at Oxford and taught zoology before becoming the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, in 1995. His previous books rank among the most influential intellectual works of our time., They include The Selfish Gene (1976), River Out Of Eden (1995), and Unweaving The Rainbow (1999).
The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present – and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.
以下内容摘自本书籍 在《自私的基因》一书中,道金斯引入“生存机器”一词,用以讲述(终有一死)的生物个体与(可能永生不朽的)基因之间的角色与关系。他提出,“在更替的过程中,基因不会被毁灭,它们会不断向前进,变化的只不过是身边的同伴,基因是复制因子,而我们是它们...
評分在我们的行星上,最简单的自发DNA复制系统是细菌细胞,而为了制造所需的组分, 它们至少要有数百个基因。非细菌的细胞称为真核细胞。我们自己的细胞,以及所有的 动物、植物、真菌和原生动物的细胞,都是真核细胞。它们通常有数万个乃至数十万个 基因,所有的基因都成组地发挥...
評分这本书写的蛮简单,隐约之间,道金斯把大自然,宇宙,宗教和智创论等问题,都等同于基因问题,其实这样分析也没什么不好,我们考虑的许多的“道”的问题,也许就是基因问题。 1. 大自然既非仁慈,也非不仁慈。它既不反对遭受痛苦,也不赞同遭受痛苦,除非影响到DNA的生存,否...
評分自然中不乏残忍,想想有一些毛虫将从内部活活被体内泥蜂的幼虫所吞噬,而无法动弹,想想瞪羚在被追捕至死亡时承受着可怕的痛苦和恐怖。自然有一点仁慈之心,它至少会做出使毛虫被从内部活活吃掉之前先行麻醉这样一个小小的让步,或是给与瞪羚一种基因,使它们在遭到致命...
評分“本書標題所說的河,指的是一條DNA之河,它是在時間中流淌,而不是在空間流淌。它是一條資訊之河,而不是骨肉之河。在這條河中流淌的,是用於建造軀體的抽象指令,而不是實在的軀體本身。“摘自內文 先前在看過道金斯的成名之作『自私的基因』,深深地為其理論折服,也...
低於預期 | 並沒看完 // 2015-06-10 城大商務
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