Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and,until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology. He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, and most recently, The God Delusion.
In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.
可能是阅读倾向的问题,对我来说这本书相比《自私的基因》可读性要高的多——虽然是接近30W字的长篇幅科普读物,读起来却非常顺畅,连作者的零星的幽默感我也很好的get√了。 个人觉得良好的阅读感不光来自作者成熟的写作风格,更多是得益于作者良好的逻辑思维能力,在对神创论...
评分作为一项历史事实的进化——评道金斯《地球上最伟大的表演》 辉格 2013年5月5日 作为现代进化理论和新达尔文主义最著名的通俗阐释者和辩护者,道金斯多年来致力于向公众解释进化论;和他过去出版的多部通俗作品一样,这仍是一本为进化论辩护的书,不同的是,之前的作品更像是...
评分趣谈生命起源,自然选择和时机突变,活化石的考古,风趣幽默 。需要补充阅读《自私的基因》-《自私的基因》充满想象力。任何生物,包括我们自己,都只是求生的机器。这本书是实实在在的认知科学,复制、变异和淘汰简单的三种机制可以演变出所有大千世界生命现象里的林林总总。...
评分地球上最伟大的表演,理查德·道金斯,中信出版股份有限公司 这本书看似只是阐述和证明进化论,但其实,它是在探讨科学和信仰。字里行间,作者都试图用极其严密的逻辑来阐明为何进化论是值得信赖的,而宗教是如何反进化论的。由作者看来,宗教赫然站立在了科学的对立面。宗教...
评分写得非常好,英语也不难。里面旁征博引很多,我懂其中一小部分,都没什么错误。其余大部分我不懂的,估计也是值得信赖的。
评分写得非常好,英语也不难。里面旁征博引很多,我懂其中一小部分,都没什么错误。其余大部分我不懂的,估计也是值得信赖的。
评分比《blind watchmaker》浅显,但是加入了新的科学发现。看来道金斯的读者群正在向低学历延伸啊。
评分还是读英文版为妙。中文译者水平波动甚大,连英语原文都有拼错,也不知道是怎么做到的。
评分the hardcover is too heavy for a hiking recreation
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