生命如何运作：新生物学用户指南 How Life Works : A User’s Guide to the New Biology

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 560 pages

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Imprint:Picador

ISBN:9781529096002

Published:6 Mar 2025

Classifications:Evolution, DNA & Genome

Weight:378g

Dimensions:129 x 197 x 36 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是人类不断探索生命奥秘的重要入门读物......

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鲍尔是一位了不起的作家'。- 亚当-卢瑟福，《卫报》'菲利普·鲍尔是一位才华横溢的科普作家.......

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令人惊叹。《星期日泰晤士报》科学图书奖得主菲利普·鲍尔（Philip Ball）对生物学提出了前沿的新观点，建议修正我们对生命的概念。生物学正在经历一场平静而深刻的变革。关于生命如何运作的标准图景有几个方面已被揭露为不完整、误导或错误的。

在《生命如何运作》一书中，菲利普·鲍尔探索了新的生物学，揭示了生命远比我们想象的要丰富、巧妙得多。这些知识带来了新的可能性。如今，我们可以重新设计和重组生命系统、组织和生物体。

例如，我们可以对细胞进行重新编程，使其执行新的任务，并生长成自然界中从未见过的结构。一些研究人员认为，我们后将能够再生肢体和器官，甚至可能创造出进化论从未想象过的新生命形式。《生命如何运作》融合了新的研究成果和见解，是对生命本质这一新领域的一次多方面探索，这一领域将重塑我们对生命的认识。

'An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . .

Excellent . . .

Ball is a terrific writer.' – Adam Rutherford, The Guardian'Ball is a ferociously gifted science writer . . .

There is so much [here] that is amazing . . .

urgent . . .

astonishing.' – The Sunday TimesA cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.

In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms.

We can reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined. Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life, a realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

作者简介

菲利普·鲍尔是一名自由撰稿人和广播员，曾在《自然》杂志担任编辑二十多年。他经常在科学和大众媒体上撰稿，并撰写了许多关于科学、艺术和更广泛文化之间相互作用的书籍，包括《生命如何运作》、《心灵之书》、《H2O：水的传记》、《明亮的地球：色彩的发明》、《音乐本能》和《好奇心：科学如何对万物产生兴趣》。他的书《临界质量》获得了 2005 年安万特科学图书奖。鲍尔因对科学的历史、哲学或社会角色的贡献而获得 2022 年皇家学会威尔金斯-伯纳尔-梅达沃奖章。他在牛津大学接受化学培训，在布里斯托大学接受物理学培训。他现居伦敦。

Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including How Life Works, The Book of Minds, H2O: A Biography of Water, Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, The Music Instinct, and Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball was the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy or social roles of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He lives in London.