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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.
作者简介
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.
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生命的跃升没有使用当今什么“的崛起”这样的恶俗的名字。却写了40亿年演化史上的十大发明，莱恩用轻松而有深度的笔法，探讨了性、运动、视觉、热血、意识、死亡，从低级的生命起源，到灵长类之王——人类是怎么回事，都一一做了诠释。 看完后不禁掩卷而思，如果没有这些热血、...
评分死亡是不朽的代价。生命最后面对的都是衰老和死亡，对DNA的研究逐步解开衰老之谜。科学家发现低自由基等于长寿，即限制热量会带来长寿。 热量限制让基因把注意力转到个体维护。如果中年开始限制热量，等于把身体重置到青年的状态。限制热量的方法是“轻断食”，即有规律的禁食...
评分（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...
评分BB：看书名好像不知道说什么。 AA：可以看副标题啊。 BB：也可以。如果把书名改成生命的进化或生命的演化，可能就没什么新意了。所以用了一个高级一点的词汇。 AA：正是英语老师教过的。 BB：不过并没有什么帮助。本书2009年出版，当然是说英文版，中文版要到2016年。讲演化的...
评分首先要说，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...
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“How did such a thing come to be?”
评分跋的最后一段，读来仿佛读到物种起源结尾时的感受，摘录于此：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.
评分跋的最后一段，读来仿佛读到物种起源结尾时的感受，摘录于此：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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