The Tree of Life

基本信息

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Murray Press

Imprint:John Murray

ISBN:9781399806381

Published:24 Apr 2025

Classifications:Popular science, Evolution, Zoology & animal sciences, The Earth: natural history general

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

我们从哪里来以及如何到达这里？

与马克斯·特尔福德教授一起穿越时空，了解曾经生活过的每个物种的历史

《生命之树》讲述了我们星球四十亿年的演化历程，讲述了巨大的家谱的迷人故事，记录了从人类、鱼类和蝴蝶到橡树、蘑菇甚至细菌等每一种生物之间的关系。

了解地球上令人惊叹的生物多样性是如何形成的，是生物学中巨大的难题之一。这本书充满了生动有趣的故事，带你深入了解：了解为什么灰狼与鲸鱼的关系比与塔斯马尼亚狼的关系更密切；地质变化和环境灾难如何在基因组上留下印记；为什么我们没有尾巴，但我们是仅有下巴的物种；并跟随个别科学家走上曲折的进化之路，偶尔走进死胡同，试图解决这个大的难题。在此过程中，我们将看到，生命之树远非枯燥的死亡代表，而是一个不断改变我们对地球生命过去、现在和未来的看法的生命。

从达尔文早期的草图到科学家们今天正在构建的庞大的计算机生成的图表，《生命之树》解释了我们如何才能了解我们的家谱，并讲述了成为生命体的各种方式的史诗历史。

这是我们自己的非常个人的故事，从数十亿年前所有生命的微小祖先开始，到你我结束。

Where do we come from and how did we get here?

Come time-travelling through the history of every species that has ever lived with Professor Max Telford

A four-billion-year journey through the evolution of our planet, The Tree of Life tells the fascinating story of the gigantic family tree that records the relationships between every living thing - from humans, fish and butterflies to oak trees, mushrooms and even bacteria.

Understanding how the amazing diversity of life on earth came to be is one of the greatest puzzles in biology. And this book, full of vivid and fascinating stories, takes you right inside: learn why grey wolves are more closely related to whales than to Tasmanian wolves; how geological change and environmental catastrophe left their marks on the genome; why we don't have tails but we are the only species with chins; and follow individual scientists down winding evolutionary byways and occasional dead ends in their attempts to solve this greatest of all puzzles. Along the way, we'll see how, far from being a dry representation of the dead, the tree of life is a living thing which constantly alters our perspective on the past, present and future of life on earth.

From Darwin's early sketches to the vast computer generated diagrams scientists are building today, The Tree of Life explains how we can know our family tree at all and tells the epic history of the various ways it's possible to be a living thing.

This is our own very personal story that began with the tiny ancestor of all life billions of years ago and ends with you and me.

作者简介

Max Telford 是一位进化生物学家，也是伦敦大学学院 Jodrell 动物学和比较解剖学教授，他在那里创立了生命起源和进化中心和 Telford 实验室。Max 因其研究而获得多项奖项（包括牛津万灵学院的客座研究员），并在过去的三十年中一直致力于研究生命之树的形状，他的更广泛目标是发现动物王国进化中很早的事件。他住在伦敦。这是他的初本书。

Max Telford is an evolutionary biologist and the Jodrell Chair of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London where he founded the Centre for Life's Origins and Evolution and the Telford Lab. Max has won several awards for his research (including a visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford) and has spent the last three decades researching the shape of the tree of life, his broader aim to discover the earliest events in the evolution of the animal kingdom. He lives in London. This is his first book.