I Contain Multitudes 在线电子书 图书标签: 科普 生物 微生物 生物科学 英文原版 美国 biology 科学和心理学
发表于2024-05-10
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生物体对细菌的依赖,拓宽了我的世界观。
评分大西洋月刊一个Ed Yong,还有一个Sarah Zhang的生物科普华人作家写的我都在追,我印象比较深的就是这两个。这部讲共生现象的还是他第一本书。
评分居然作为译者没给作品刷五星,我有罪。大家期待一下过一阵中文版就出了。
评分虽说一遍读下来也只能算是略懂了一些微生物界的知识,但至少读起来很有意思,而且大开眼界。Amazing World!
评分这样一本书在这样一个时刻
Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer on the staff of The Atlantic. His blog Not Exactly Rocket Science is hosted by National Geographic, and his work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Wired, the New York Times, Nature, the BBC, New Scientist, Scientific American, the Guardian, the Times, Aeon, Discover, The Scientist, Slate, Mosaic, and Nautilus. He splits his time between London and Washington DC. You can find him on twitter @edyong209 and sign up to his weekly newsletter, The Ed’s Up, on http://tinyletter.com/edyong209/.
A groundbreaking, marvelously informative “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a radically reconceived picture of life on earth.
For most of human existence, microbes were hidden, visible only through the illnesses they caused. When they finally surfaced in biological studies, they were cast as rogues. Only recently have they immigrated from the neglected fringes of biology to its center. Even today, many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us—the microbiome—are invaluable parts of our lives.
I Contain Multitudes lets us peer into that world for the first time, allowing us to see how ubiquitous and vital microbes are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, educate our immune systems, guide our behavior, bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities. While much of the prevailing discussion around the microbiome has focused on its implications for human health, Yong broadens this focus to the entire animal kingdom, giving us a grander view of life.
With humor and erudition, Ed Yong prompts us to look at ourselves and our fellow animals in a new light: less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent multitudes we assuredly are. When we look at the animal kingdom through a microbial lens, even the most familiar parts of our lives take on a striking new air. We learn the secret, invisible, and wondrous biology behind the corals that construct mighty reefs, the glowing squid that can help us understand the bacteria in our own guts, the beetles that bring down forests, the disease-fighting mosquitoes engineered in Australia, and the ingredients in breast milk that evolved to nourish a baby’s first microbes. We see how humans are disrupting these partnerships and how scientists are now manipulating them to our advantage. We see, as William Blake wrote, the world in a grain of sand.
I Contain Multitudes is the story of these extraordinary partnerships, between the familiar creatures of our world and those we never knew existed. It will change both our view of nature and our sense of where we belong in it.
“自2006年以来,另一种真菌已经横扫北美洲的蝙蝠种群:它会导致一种致命的白鼻综合征(white nose syndrome),在蝙蝠洞内留下了数以百万计的尸体” 01 — 关于微生物的科普书。每个人随身携带的微生物大约有39万亿个,种类繁多,因此说每个人都“包罗万象”,这就是书名的由...
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