基因亡灵书 Genetic Book of the Dead

基本信息

Illustrated by:Jana Lenzova

Format:Hardback 360 pages, 198 colour22 bw

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:Apollo

ISBN:9781804548080

Weight:930g

Dimensions:165 x 239 x 29 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这本书出自一位世界伟大的科学作家之手，探讨了进化史深层的原理。

理查德·道金斯以开创性的新方法研究了所有生命的进化，他展示了如何将每种生物的身体、行为和基因解读为一本书——一本记录其祖先世界的档案。一只伪装的沙漠蜥蜴的背上“画”着一片干燥的沙石景观。它的皮肤可以解读为其祖先生存的古老沙漠的描述——以及在此之前其更远祖先的世界：一本死亡的基因书。

但这些描述并不浅显。达尔文自然选择的精细凿子穿过身体的经纬，进入每个生化角落，进入每个生物的每一个细胞。未来的动物学家面对一种迄今未知的动物，将能够重建塑造其祖先的世界，阅读其独特的“死亡之书”。

这本书充满了达尔文自然选择的力量，它创造了精致，但矛盾的是，它伴随着看似严重的错误。在此过程中，道金斯驳斥了对“基因视角”生命的有影响力的批评。最后，作者以一个挑衅性的结尾问道，在某种意义上，我们所有的“自己的”基因都可以看作是一个巨大的合作病毒群落吗？

这是一本革命性的、插图丰富的书，由《自私的基因》和《祖先的故事》的作者所著，它以全新的视角打开了通往古老过去的大门。

From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.

In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book - an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. A perfectly camouflaged desert lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones 'painted' on its back. Its skin can be read as a description of ancient deserts in which its ancestors survived - and, before that, of the worlds of its more remote ancestors: a genetic book of the dead.

But such descriptions are more than skin-deep. The fine chisels of Darwinian natural selection carve their way through the very warp and woof of the body, into every biochemical nook and corner, into every cell of every living creature. A zoologist of the future, presented with a hitherto-unknown animal, will be able to reconstruct the worlds that shaped its ancestors, to read its unique 'book of the dead'.

The book is filled with fascinating examples of the power of Darwinian natural selection to build exquisite perfection, paradoxically accompanied by what look like gross blunders. Along the way, Dawkins dismantles influential criticisms of the 'gene's-eye-view' of life. And, to end with a provocative sting in the tail, the author asks there is a sense in which all our 'own' genes can be seen as a gigantic colony of cooperating viruses?

From the author of The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale comes a revolutionary, richly illustrated book that unlocks the door to an ancient past, seen through wholly new eyes.

作者简介

理查德·道金斯是世界上杰出的作家和思想家之一。他是《自私的基因》、《盲眼钟表匠》、《上帝错觉》等一系列畅销科学书籍的获奖作者，也是皇家学会和皇家文学学会的会员。道金斯住在牛津。

Jana Lenzová 出生并成长于斯洛伐克布拉迪斯拉发，是一名插画家、翻译家和口译员。在 Jana 受委托将理查德·道金斯的《上帝错觉》翻译成斯洛伐克语后，她开始以插画家的身份为他的书做出贡献。

Richard Dawkins is one of the world's most eminent writers and thinkers. He is the award-winning author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The Delusion and a string of other bestselling science books, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins lives in Oxford.

Jana Lenzová born and raised in Bratislava, Slovakia, is an illustrator, translator and interpreter. After Jana had been commissioned to translate The Delusion by Rich ard Dawkins into Slovak, she began contributing to his books as an illustrator.