River Out Of Eden伊甸园之河

作者：Prof Richard Dawkins

出版社: Phoenix (2015年3月5日)

丛书名: SCIENCE MASTERS

平装: 224页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 1780226896

条形码: 9781780226897

商品尺寸: 13.3 x 1.9 x 20.1 cm

商品重量: 240 g

内容简介

The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but inexorably, over a period of three thousand million years. It is the story of how evolution happens, rather than a narrative of what has actually happened in evolution. He discusses current views on the process of human evolution, including the idea that we all trace back to a comparatively recent African 'Eve', and speculates that the 'information explosion' that was unleashed on Earth when DNA came into being has almost certainly happened in other places in the universe.