圖書標籤: 進化論 生物 進化 係統生物學 科普 復雜係統 分子生物 evolution
发表于2024-11-08
Arrival of the Fittest pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature’s many innovations—some uncannily perfect—call for natural principles that accelerate life’s ability to innovate.”
Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved over time. But the biggest mystery about evolution eluded him. As genetics pioneer Hugo de Vries put it, “natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest.”
Can random mutations over a mere 3.8 billion years really be responsible for wings, eyeballs, knees, camouflage, lactose digestion, photosynthesis, and the rest of nature’s creative marvels? And if the answer is no, what is the mechanism that explains evolution’s speed and efficiency?
In Arrival of the Fittest, renowned evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner draws on over fifteen years of research to present the missing piece in Darwin’s theory. Using experimental and computational technologies that were heretofore unimagined, he has found that adaptations are not just driven by chance, but by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take.
Consider the Arctic cod, a fish that lives and thrives within six degrees of the North Pole, in waters that regularly fall below 0 degrees. At that temperature, the internal fluids of most organisms turn into ice crystals. And yet, the arctic cod survives by producing proteins that lower the freezing temperature of its body fluids, much like antifreeze does for a car’s engine coolant. The invention of those proteins is an archetypal example of nature’s enormous powers of creativity.
Meticulously researched, carefully argued, evocatively written, and full of fascinating examples from the animal kingdom, Arrival of the Fittest offers up the final puzzle piece in the mystery of life’s rich diversity.
Andreas Wagner is a professor in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He lectures worldwide and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
用淺顯的語言描述進化過程中的“創新”是如何齣現的。濃縮瞭作者多年的研究成果。不過感覺有點太淺顯瞭。
評分用淺顯的語言描述進化過程中的“創新”是如何齣現的。濃縮瞭作者多年的研究成果。不過感覺有點太淺顯瞭。
評分genotype就不說瞭,algorithm什麼也都是嚇人的。真正有意思的是作者對於科學知識的把握和理解
評分用淺顯的語言描述進化過程中的“創新”是如何齣現的。濃縮瞭作者多年的研究成果。不過感覺有點太淺顯瞭。
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評分一、萧伯纳又丑又蠢的孩子 爱尔兰剧作家萧伯纳有这样一个经典幽默广为流传,说是美国舞蹈家邓肯仰慕其才华,写信告诉他:“假如我们两个结婚生子,孩子拥有你的智慧和我的美貌,那该多好!”萧伯纳回信说,“要是生的孩子相貌像我,智慧如你,岂不糟糕!” 萧伯纳的故事道出了...
Arrival of the Fittest pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024