作者介紹

鮑伯．博曼、羅伯．蘭薩(Robert Lanza、Bob Berman)

羅伯．蘭薩博士（Robert Lanza, MD）

◎ 2014時代雜誌百大影響力人物

◎ 「曾師事心理學家史金納、免疫學家喬納斯．沙克（Jonas Salk）與心臟移植的先驅克里斯蒂安．巴納德（Christiaan Barnard）等科學巨擘。這幾位導師對他的評價是『天才』、『叛逆的思想家』，甚至將他跟愛因斯坦相提並論。」

──《美國新聞與世界報導》（US News & World Report）封面故事

探索科學疆界超過四十年，被視為全球頂尖科學家。目前除了在先進細胞科技公司（Advanced Cell Technology）擔任首席科學主任，也是維克弗斯特大學醫學院（Wake Forest University School of Medicine）的兼任教授。他發表過數百篇論文與發明，出版過二十本科學著作，其中一本是《組織工程原理》（Principles of Tissue Engineering），被視為該領域的重要參考書。另著有《一個世界：二十一世紀的人類健康與生存》（One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century），美國前總統吉米．卡特為該書寫了序言；此外還有《幹細胞手冊》（Handbook of Stem Cells）與《幹細胞生物學要點》（Essentials of Stem Cell Biology），兩本書都是幹細胞研究的重要參考書。

蘭薩博士在賓州大學取得學士與醫學博士學位，在學期間曾獲大學獎學金（University Scholar）與富蘭克林獎學金（Benjamin Franklin Scholar）。他也曾獲得傅爾布萊特獎學金（Fulbright Scholar），並參與全球第一個複製人類胚胎的研究團隊；他也是複製瀕危生物的第一人，證明了核轉移（nuclear transfer）可以逆轉老化；此外，蘭薩博士率先使用一種毋須摧毀人類胚胎也能製造幹細胞的方法。蘭薩博士於二〇〇五年獲得《連線》雜誌頒發的醫學傑出成就獎（Rave Award for Medicine），二〇〇六年獲得麻州高科技委員會（Mass High Tech）頒發的生物學「全能獎」。

蘭薩博士與他的研究曾登上全球媒體，包括各大電視網、CNN、《新聞週刊》、《人物》雜誌，以及《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《洛杉磯時報》與《今日美國》等。蘭薩合作過的當代偉大思想家包括諾貝爾獎得主傑拉爾德．艾德曼（Gerald Edelman）與羅德尼．波特（Rodney Porter）。蘭薩曾在哈佛大學與「現代行為學之父」史金納密切合作，共同發表了許多科學論文。他也曾與發現小兒痲痺疫苗的喬納斯．沙克和心臟移植的先驅克里斯蒂安．巴納德合作。

鮑伯．博曼（Bob Berman）

全球作品流傳最廣的天文學家。他發表的文章數量超過一千，作品曾登上《探索雜誌》與《天文學》，他是這兩本雜誌的每月專欄作家。此外，他是《老農年鑑》（The Old Farmer’s Almanac）的天文學編輯，並曾出版過四本著作。他除了在瑪麗蒙特學院（Marymount College）擔任兼任教授，每個星期也為東北公共電台（Northeast Public Radio）撰寫和製作一個節目，於電台的《每週特輯》（Weekend Edition）時段播出。

譯者簡介

隋芃

專事翻譯。譯作包括《源場：超自然關鍵報告》（合譯）、《超腦零極限》《死過一次才學會愛》等。

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world a US News & World Report cover story called him a genius” and a renegade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe.

Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, toward doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe’s genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around.

In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universeour ownfrom the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the reader’s ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal.

The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.