The Greatest Show on Earth 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 科學 理查德·道金斯
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Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil's Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.
From Publishers Weekly
SignatureReviewed by Jonah LehrerRichard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naïvely assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an edifice of tested assumptions, and just as physicists must assume the truth of gravity before moving on to quantum mechanics, so do biologists depend on the reality of evolution. It's the theory that makes every other theory possible.Yet Dawkins also came to realize that a disturbingly large percentage of the American and British public didn't share his enthusiasm for evolution. In fact, they actively abhorred the idea, since it seemed to contradict the Bible and diminish the role of God. So Dawkins decided to write a book for these history-deniers, in which he would dispassionately demonstrate the truth of evolution beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt.After only a few pages of The Greatest Show on Earth, however, it becomes clear that Dawkins doesn't do dispassionate, and that he's not particularly interested in convincing believers to believe in evolution. He repeatedly compares creationists and Holocaust deniers, which is a peculiar way of reaching out to the other side. Elsewhere, Dawkins calls those who don't subscribe to evolution ignorant, fatuously ignorant and ridiculous. All of which raises the point: who, exactly, is supposed to read this book? Is Dawkins preaching to the choir or trying to convert the uninformed? While The Greatest Show on Earth might fail as a work of persuasive rhetoric—Dawkins is too angry and acerbic to convince his opponents—it succeeds as an encyclopedic summary of evolutionary biology. If Charles Darwin walked into a 21st-century bookstore and wanted to know how his theory had fared, this is the book he should pick up.Dawkins remains a superb translator of complex scientific concepts. It doesn't matter if he's spinning metaphors for the fossil record (like a spy camera in a murder trial) or deftly explaining the method by which scientists measure the genetic difference between distinct species: he has a way of making the drollest details feel like a revelation. Even if one already believes in the survival of the fittest, there is something thrilling about learning that the hoof of a horse is homologous to the fingernail of the human middle finger, or that some dinosaurs had a second brain of ganglion cells in their pelvis, which helped compensate for the tiny brain in their head. As Darwin famously noted, There is grandeur in this view of life. What Dawkins demonstrates is that this view of life isn't just grand: it's also undeniably true. Color illus. (Sept. 29)Jonah Lehrer is the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist.
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From Bookmarks Magazine
"Like a detective reconstructing a crime" (San Francisco Chronicle), Dawkins amasses a mountain of evidence in this richly illustrated, enormously readable explanation of the theory of evolution. Though Dawkins may have softened his attitude toward those who can reconcile their religious beliefs with evolution, he still harbors great hostility toward its detractors, equating them to Holocaust deniers—a label that riled the New York Times Book Review. Objecting to Dawkins's abrasive dogmatism, many critics felt that the biologist is at his best when he forgets his opponents and focuses on the science. He is indeed a master of explaining complex scientific ideas to nonscientific readers, and though The Greatest Show on Earth may not be his best book, it is a well-written, captivating review of the science behind the theory.
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...
評分1, 理查德伦斯基的大肠杆菌进化实验太漂亮了,某一天走进实验室突然发现培养基变得特别浑浊,那是怎样的欣喜啊,那是对神创论者多有力的打击啊。我们的时代留下了这么多影视信息,未来的人,应该是无一不承认进化论的吧。可如果理性思维的基因不是优势基因呢?如果笃信宗教会...
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...
評分理查德·道金斯对信进化论的人不如信上帝的人多感到沮丧。我不知道中国的情况怎样。但是我猜想,中国和西方有宗教传统的国家有一个有趣的对比,即,像这样西方的国家,人从小生在宗教氛围耳濡目染,产生一种“宗教偏见”,这使得他们直觉上更偏向宗教而不信进化论,就像洗脑的...
評分地球上唯一的娱乐,地球上最伟大的表演。BBC专门以“地球上最伟大的表演”为名,邀请全球顶级科学家、哲学家录制交响曲,制作纪录片全球发布(霍金、道金斯也在邀请之列),“地球上最伟大的表演”继“自私的基因”之后又将成为固定词组。 没有想到这本书的书名也有故事。道金...
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