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.
在无神论的教育下长大的我们也许听到这个数字会感到惊讶:原来美国仍有超过40%的人相信地球上的生物包括人类是上帝创造,而达尔文的进化论根本是无稽之谈! 也许你会嘲笑这些愚昧的上帝的子民。换个角度,你是否想过我们毫无保留的接受了进化论,正像我们接受了很多普世理论和...
評分 評分Dawkins 确实是一位学识深厚的科学家,书中提供了极丰富的案例,实验和分析,读起来非常有趣。而让我有些意外的是他对编程也不是门外汉,在第二章中提到的几个进化模拟程序 biomorphs,conchomorphs 和arthromorphs都是很有意思的东西,网上能搜到互动版本动手玩,我自己也impl...
評分趣谈生命起源,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。...
評分Dawkins 确实是一位学识深厚的科学家,书中提供了极丰富的案例,实验和分析,读起来非常有趣。而让我有些意外的是他对编程也不是门外汉,在第二章中提到的几个进化模拟程序 biomorphs,conchomorphs 和arthromorphs都是很有意思的东西,网上能搜到互动版本动手玩,我自己也impl...
Dawkins 的東西質量還是有保證。看過瞭他的God Delusion,覺得講得很透,邏輯嚴密。結果再看這本還是有收獲。
评分進化論方麵的一部科普讀物,雖然不錯,但是很多理論並無新意。
评分宣傳無神論,為演化論提供evidence之作
评分Dawkins 的東西質量還是有保證。看過瞭他的God Delusion,覺得講得很透,邏輯嚴密。結果再看這本還是有收獲。
评分言之有物,深入透徹,蕩氣迴腸,強烈推薦!
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