书名：Seeds of Science科学的种子

作者：Mark Lynas马克·林纳斯

出版社名称：Bloomsbury 

出版时间：2020 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9781472946973 

商品尺寸：14.3 x 2 x 19.9 cm 

包装：平装

页数：304（以实物为准）

马克·林纳斯是一位科普作家、记者、美国康奈尔大学科学联盟的客座研究员、环保人士，也曾是一名坚定的“反转基因斗士”。但林纳斯在2013年从“反转”斗士变成了“挺转”人士，在那一年的牛津农业会议上，林纳斯公开为自己过去妖魔化转基因作物的行为道歉，并称其认识到转基因作物不仅可以安全食用，也能满足全球日益增长的人口对粮食的需求。

这本书详细地介绍了马克·林纳斯从反对转基因生物到支持转基因生物的过程。

他游历了非洲和亚洲，并与植物科学家合作，这些科学家利用这项技术帮助发展中国家的小农更好地应对虫害、疾病和干旱。这本书揭开了反转基因热潮的盖子，并展示了在公众歇斯底里席卷世界的浪潮中，科学是如何被抛在一边的。马克带我们回到技术的起源，并介绍了发明它的科学先驱。

他解释了是什么导致他质疑他之前关于转基因食品的假设，并与这场激烈辩论的双方进行了交谈，以了解是什么在今天仍然激起全世界的反对。在这个过程中，他提出并回答了一个致命的问题:我们怎么会在转基因生物上犯这么大的错误?

这是对一个具有造福人类巨大潜力的问题的重要贡献。—斯蒂芬·平克(Stephen Pinker)

“我强烈推荐这本书。”—菲利普·普尔曼(Philip Pullman)

'Mark Lynas is a saint' Sunday Times'Fluent, persuasive and surely right.' Evening StandardMark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s - working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement - he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world - from New York to China - still think that 'GMO' foods are bad for their health or likely to damage the environment.

But Mark has changed his mind. This book explains why. In 2013, in a world-famous recantation speech, Mark apologised for having destroyed GM crops.

He spent the subsequent years touring Africa and Asia, and working with plant scientists who are using this technology to help smallholder farmers in developing countries cope better with pests, diseases and droughts. This book lifts the lid on the anti-GMO craze and shows how science was left by the wayside as a wave of public hysteria swept the world. Mark takes us back to the origins of the technology and introduces the scientific pioneers who invented it.

He explains what led him to question his earlier assumptions about GM food, and talks to both sides of this fractious debate to see what still motivates worldwide opposition today. In the process he asks - and answers - the killer question: how did we all get it so wrong on GMOs?'An important contribution to an issue with enormous potential for benefiting humanity.' Stephen Pinker'I warmly recommend it.' Philip Pullman

马克·林纳斯（Mark Lynas，1973年—），英国科普作家、环保人士，曾因为创作出由国家地理出版的《上帝的物种：在人类纪拯救地球》而引起反响，他还曾经是转基因技术的坚决反对者，但在2013年之后这一态度转变。

Mark Lynas is the author of three major popular science environmental books: High Tide (2004), Six Degrees (2008) and The God Species (2011), as well as the Kindle Single ebook Nuclear 2.0 (2012). Six Degrees won the Royal Society prize and was made into a National Geographic documentary.

Lynas was advisor on climate change to the President of the Maldives from 2009 until the coup in 2012. He has contributed extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Bangkok Post and numerous others. Until 2017 he is a visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science, Cornell University.