具体描述
How did life invent itself? Where did DNA come from? How did consciousness develop? Powerful new research methods are providing vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining atomic structures of proteins, and looking into the geochemistry of rocks have helped explain evolution in more detail than ever before. Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies. Who would have guessed that eyes started off as light-sensitive spots used to calibrate photosynthesis in algae? Or that DNA’s building blocks form spontaneously in hydrothermal vents? Lane gives a gripping, lucid account of nature’s ingenuity, and the result is a work of essential reading for anyone who has ever pondered or questioned the science underlying evolution’s greatest gifts to man.
作者简介
Nick Lane is a biochemist and honorary reader at University College London, where he lives. His book Power, Sex, Suicide was named an Economist Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Aventis Science Book Prize.
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读后感
刚看到第四章，实在被作者的科学素养和文学功底所折服，忍不住感叹。在读的过程中，情节跌宕起伏的让人对这本书的科普定位有所怀疑，每每当我觉得此事已然遵循着严密的逻辑，且在强有力的实验证据支撑下可以成为真理时，作者往往能找到一个很好的切入点让我打破原来认定的事情...
评分（写在最初的最初：作者本人是个演化学家，从书的标题也可以看出，整本书是从演化的角度来阐述问题的，所以这些书中还没有实锤的一些理论是否一定是最合理的解释是很难确认的，因为作者一定会从演化理论的角度去找一个最make sense的理论出来，我们在看的过程中，除了被科普的...
评分用户评价
跋的最后一段，读来仿佛读到物种起源结尾时的感受，摘录于此：It is a most wonderful thing to share so much with the life around us on this blue-green marble,floating through the bleak infinity of space.There is more than grandeur in this view of life.There is fallibility and majesty,and the best human eagerness to know.
评分“How did such a thing come to be?”
评分作者的科学写作功底不容忽视，抛八卦和段子的能力不是一般哒。期待Ent的译本。
评分还行，有点啰嗦
评分Fascinating book. One of the best on evolution
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