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.
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.
本书介绍的是,生命发展过程中10大关键性进展,当然因为真实的过程目前没有技术能力完全重现,所以免不了有推理和猜测的成分,但是比某些历史学家好一些的是,本书会提取出自己有推测和偏好的地方,让读者有个正确的认识。 生命的诞生和演化是耗费的海量时间、物质和能量的过程...
評分 評分首先要说,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...
深刻優美
评分Nick Lane是那種膽大有見地的科學傢,不光自己研究做得好,各派觀點融會貫通。乾貨多,包袱抖得勤,哲學藝術功底深,文筆也好。十分推薦一讀。
评分Astonishing. 生命的珍貴和偉大
评分好。
评分關於性的那章,解除瞭我一直以來的疑惑。如果隻靠變異,一個基因要消亡必須是所有個體的消亡,並且沒有後代,非常殘酷。如果是這樣,我們有這麼多共性,必然是共祖的,那也不太像。正解應該是性,可以融閤基因,同時逐漸把壞基因淡齣,這樣就比較溫和。
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