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.
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.
1、可持续的能量利用形式,最中心的循环反应。 2、复制,海底喷泉口的矿物小孔。 3、能够利用光,能量来源极大飞跃。 4、进化,如果说有方向,就是进化出的物种对环境的适应能力、掌控能力越来越强,从能量利用到运动,到视觉,到热血,到意识,再到文化。 5、死亡,困惑的发明...
評分 評分首先要说,我没能把中文版看完,当时是看到ent居然翻译了本书....出于对他平常写的文章的好感马上买来看了,可是翻译的并不好,所以转回英文版,这才享受到极致体验。 作者是英国人,我们九零年前后生的人可能都比较习惯美式英语,这是一个读原文的障碍。作者使用的英语可以说...
評分(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...
跋的最後一段,讀來仿佛讀到物種起源結尾時的感受,摘錄於此: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.
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评分雖然今年讀瞭許多好書,但這本很可能還是最齣色的一本。
评分“How did such a thing come to be?”
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