We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so amssively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. (查看原文)
Unlike Moore's law for computers, there is no obvious reason to think that the human brain will go on swelling. In order for this to happen, large-brained individuals have to have more children than small-brained individuals. It isn't obvious that this is now happening. It must have happened during our ancestral past, otherwise our brains would not have grown as they did. It also must have been true, incidentally, that braininess in our ancestors was under genetic control. If it had not been, natural selection would have had nothing to work on, and the evolutionary growth of the brain would not have occurred. For some reason, many people take grave political offense at the suggestion that some individuals are genetically clearer than others. But this must have been the case when our brains... (查看原文)
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理查德·道金斯 作者
左其盛
中信出版社2017版
见识城邦
中信出版社2017版
歌厅
中信出版社2017版
0 有用 柒筱 2020-03-03 10:34:57
本书是对科学、神秘主义和人性深邃的人文主义检视。本书中以“虚幻的蒙骗”、“玄妙的解析”为标题的章节，是专门为受到迷信诱惑的人们写的。内容包括：熟悉的麻木、伯爵的客厅、星球上的条形码、空中的条形码等共十二章的内容。
0 有用 dragonss 2007-10-22 23:49:15
aka Unweaving the Rainbow
1 有用 Dunbar 2022-09-09 01:46:19 湖南
翻译得有点烂，是本好书
0 有用 这可咋整 2016-06-23 20:37:41
其实我更喜欢看道金斯的吐槽。当然书本身还是很有趣的。虽说书的前半和后半内容有些脱节，但就传播科学理念方面说，也没什么不好。
0 有用 修罗大掌柜 2019-01-07 04:11:53
这个才是童年的版本