Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and,until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology. He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, and most recently, The God Delusion.
In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species , shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.
译者翻译的《物种源始》第一版 http://book.douban.com/subject/10825913/ 1859年,查尔斯•达尔文的杰作《物种源始》震撼了社会的核心。达尔文对自己的进化论可能引起的风暴自然早有意料,但恐怕连达尔文也想不到,这个争论竟然能在150年后继续存在。时至今日,进化已...
评分1, 理查德伦斯基的大肠杆菌进化实验太漂亮了,某一天走进实验室突然发现培养基变得特别浑浊,那是怎样的欣喜啊,那是对神创论者多有力的打击啊。我们的时代留下了这么多影视信息,未来的人,应该是无一不承认进化论的吧。可如果理性思维的基因不是优势基因呢?如果笃信宗教会...
评分道金斯的几本书纠正了我的一系列错误观点。 1、生物有所谓高级和低级之分。人类中心论。人比蟑螂高级,不过如果美苏脑子抽筋互发核弹,人类死光了,蟑螂可能还能生存,到底谁高级呢? 2、人是有猴子进化来的。峨眉山上那些讨厌的猴子跟人类祖先不是同一种猴子啦,人与现在的猴...
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评分比《blind watchmaker》浅显,但是加入了新的科学发现。看来道金斯的读者群正在向低学历延伸啊。
评分进化论方面的一部科普读物,虽然不错,但是很多理论并无新意。
评分Dawkins 的东西质量还是有保证。看过了他的God Delusion,觉得讲得很透,逻辑严密。结果再看这本还是有收获。
评分进化论方面的一部科普读物,虽然不错,但是很多理论并无新意。
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