Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments. Perhaps most poignantly, she understands the complexities and the sad necessity of death. "The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art," she points out. Few writers have ever covered so many facets of biology so evocatively in one book. The Beauty of the Beastly tells us how the genius of the biological universe resides in its details and proves why, according to Timothy Ferris, author of the acclaimed Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Angier is "one of the strongest and wittiest science writers in the world today."

納塔莉・安吉爾

納塔莉・安吉爾：《紐約時報》科普專欄作傢，她把創造性和無窮探索的精神與機智幽默的文學風格結閤起來，對大自然和生命本質進行深刻考察和思索，對人類最新科學成就進行通俗而又妙趣橫生的綜述。其傑齣成就使她獲得瞭新聞及科普文學的最高奬項――普利策奬、劉易斯・托馬斯奬和美國科學進步協會奬。本書是其最為人所稱道的代錶作，在美國暢銷不衰。