The Greatest Show on Earth

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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.

出版者:Free Press
作者:Richard Dawkins
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页数:480
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出版时间:2009
价格:USD 30.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781416594789
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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.

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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...  

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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...  

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道金斯的几本书纠正了我的一系列错误观点。 1、生物有所谓高级和低级之分。人类中心论。人比蟑螂高级,不过如果美苏脑子抽筋互发核弹,人类死光了,蟑螂可能还能生存,到底谁高级呢? 2、人是有猴子进化来的。峨眉山上那些讨厌的猴子跟人类祖先不是同一种猴子啦,人与现在的猴...  

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对于读过道金斯书的人来说,这本的新东西不多,基本是之前论据的重新排列和之前观点的重新展示,读或不读,影响不大。说起来这本书也确实不是道金斯为他的粉丝(或说演化论者)写的。至于为谁而写,开头部分已经说的很清楚了,是那占英国和美国人口40%、让道金斯耿耿于怀的神创...  

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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。

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进化论方面的一部科普读物,虽然不错,但是很多理论并无新意。

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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。

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本书非常易读,英文用词浅显易懂,案例丰富有趣。不过结构并不非常严谨,不是一个有系统介绍进化论的著作。综合看来非常符合其“给教育程度一般的大众驳斥上帝造物说”的定位。 Evolution is the combination of random variation and non-random passing of genetic information.

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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。

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