Name: The Creation
ISBN: 9780393330489

作者: Edward O·Wilson
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
副标题: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
出版年: 2007-9-17
页数: 192
定价: USD 14.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780393330489

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The book that launched a movement: "Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks), proposing a historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity.

The Creation is E. O. Wilson's most important work since the publications of Sociobiology and Biophilia . Like Rachel Carson's Silent...

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The Creation is E. O. Wilson's most important work since the publications of Sociobiology and Biophilia . Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , it is a book about the fate of the earth and the survival of our planet. Yet while Carson was specifically concerned with insecticides and the ecological destruction of our natural resources, Wilson, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, attempts his new social revolution by bridging the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of fundamentalism and science. Like Carson, Wilson passionately concerned about the state of the world, draws on his own personal experiences and expertise as an entomologist, and prophesies that half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either have gone or at least are fated for early extinction by the end of our present century.

Astonishingly, The Creation is not a bitter, predictable rant against fundamentalist Christians or deniers of Darwin. Rather, Wilson, a leading "secular humanist," draws upon his own rich background as a boy in Alabama who "took the waters," and seeks not to condemn this new generations of Christians but to address them on their own terms. Conceiving the book as an extended letter to a southern Baptist minister, Wilson, in stirring language that can evoke Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," tells this everyman minister how, in fact, the world really came to be. He pleads with these men of the cloth to understand the cataclysmic damage that is destroying our planet and asks for their help in preventing the destruction of our Earth before it is too late. Never a pessimist, Wilson avers that there are solutions that may yet save the planet, and believes that the vision that he presents in The Creation is one that both scientists and pastors can accept, and work on together in spite of their fundamental ideological differences.

作者简介 · · · · · ·

爱德华·威尔逊(Edward 0．Wilson)，当今美国生物学翘楚，堪称20世纪最出色的生物学家和科学思想家之一。

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大体上，一个完全的、大型的荒野被定义为一个面积较大的、受到极少干扰的相邻栖息地的聚合体。“保护国际”在最近的研究中指出，它至少要有1万平方公里（100万公顷），至少要有70%的区域仍然分布着自然植被。 (查看原文)

聊斋 2014-02-04 20:23:12

—— 引自第16页
人类是一个被限制在非常小的生态位中的物种。 (查看原文)

聊斋 2014-02-04 20:27:52

—— 引自第24页