出版社: Oneworld Publications
副标题: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
出版年: 2014-11-6
页数: 304
定价: GBP 18.99
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781780745169
内容简介 · · · · · ·
The power of Darwin's theory of natural selection is beyond doubt, it explains how useful adaptations are preserved over generations. But evolution's biggest mystery eluded Darwin: how those adaptations arise in the first place. Can random mutations over a 3.8 billion years be solely responsible for wings, eyeballs, knees, photosynthesis, and the rest of nature's creative marve...
The power of Darwin's theory of natural selection is beyond doubt, it explains how useful adaptations are preserved over generations. But evolution's biggest mystery eluded Darwin: how those adaptations arise in the first place. Can random mutations over a 3.8 billion years be solely responsible for wings, eyeballs, knees, photosynthesis, and the rest of nature's creative marvels? And by calling these mutations `random', are we not just admitting our own ignorance? What if we could now uncover the wellspring of all biological innovation? Renowned evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner presents the missing piece in Darwin's theory. Using cutting-edge experimental and computational technologies, he has found that adaptations are in fact driven by a set of laws that allow nature to discover new molecules and mechanisms in a fraction of the time that random variation would take. Consider the Arctic cod, a fish that lives in waters cold enough to turn the internal fluids of most organisms into ice crystals. And yet the Arctic cod survives by producing `natural anti-freeze', proteins that lower the freezing temperature of its body fluids. The invention of those proteins is an archetypal example of nature's enormous powers of creativity. Meticulously researched, carefully argued, and full of fascinating examples from the animal kingdom, Arrival of the Fittest offers up the final puzzle piece in the mystery of life's rich diversity.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Andreas Wagner is Professor at the University of Zurich's Institute of Evolutionary Biology and an award-winning science writer. He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers published in leading journals, including Nature and Science, and this is the first book popularising his new evolutionary systems research. He lives in Zurich.
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向达尔文致敬!(不是我,是作者)
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读了两遍,还是感觉脑子里的折叠回路不够用。但是不赖翻译,翻译确是我近几年读到的最专业的,仅仅有一两个地方略显奇怪,其一是那个总是被提到的“”诡盘投影机“,其二e是那个“活力”,感觉是不是有别的特定的词形容它。 记得以前读书时,学到生物里的遗传基因时是最为抓狂... (展开)

生物多样性可以有多多
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