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.
译者翻译的《物种源始》第一版 http://book.douban.com/subject/10825913/ 1859年,查尔斯•达尔文的杰作《物种源始》震撼了社会的核心。达尔文对自己的进化论可能引起的风暴自然早有意料,但恐怕连达尔文也想不到,这个争论竟然能在150年后继续存在。时至今日,进化已...
评分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...
评分 评分 评分这本书完全是当作一本科普书而读的,作者围绕进化是一个无可回避的事实而进行探讨。 它分以下几个目录: 第一章 只是一个理论? 第二章 狗,牛和白菜 第三章 报春花的宏进化之路 第四章 安静与缓慢的时间 第五章 就发生在我们眼前 第六章 缺失的环...
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Dawkins 的东西质量还是有保证。看过了他的God Delusion,觉得讲得很透,逻辑严密。结果再看这本还是有收获。
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。
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