作者:
史蒂芬·杰·古尔德 出版社:江苏科学技术出版社 副标题: 从柏拉图到达尔文 原作名: Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin 译者:
范昱峰 出版年: 2009-10 页数: 188 定价: 22.00元 丛书:青鸟文丛 ISBN: 9787534568565
斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德(Stephen Jay Gould),当今世界上著名的进化论者,古生物学家、科学史学家和科学散文作家。1945年生于纽约,在安蒂奥克学院,哥伦比亚大学研读古生物并获博士学位。现任教于哈佛大学,并从事研究工作。主要著作有《自达尔文以来》、《熊猫的拇指》、《汉斯的牙与马的蹄》、《八头小猪》等。
We should therefore not be surprised that Thomas Henry Huxley, the arch rationalist and master of combat, should have chosen a chessboard for his image of natural reality:
< The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. (From A Liberal Education, 1868.) > (查看原文)
We are not surrogates for arthropods (more than 80 percent of animal species), or exemplars of anything either particular or typical. We are the possessors of one extraordinary evolutionary invention called consciousness—the factor that permits us, rather than any other species, to ruminate about such matters (or, rather, cows ruminate and we cogitate). (查看原文)
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms m...
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0 有用 自由的心 2012-02-09 21:25:22
我就感觉译者不是大陆的,看着文字那么别扭,无法速读下去。本书也没有想象中那么好,为了说明作者的统计学观点,拉拉杂杂,讲了很多棒球的事情,再推出他的观点。为了说明他的进化学观点,也是旁征博引了一番,洋洋洒洒,却感觉有些凌乱,失望。
0 有用 1-2-3 2012-11-06 23:40:14
不错的观点和模型。论述有点啰嗦,翻译很业余。
0 有用 takashisha 2012-03-02 22:28:55
与《枪炮、病菌和钢铁》、《自私的基因》、《复杂》、《失控》四本书可以参看。
0 有用 蚊子 2010-10-30 23:34:53
进化论远没有我们想的那么简单和想当然
1 有用 蝉 2013-10-25 10:18:12
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