地球上的生活 Living on Earth

基本信息

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:William Collins

ISBN:9780008321253

Published:15 Aug 2024

Weight:270g

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

彼得·戈弗雷-史密斯 (Peter Godfrey-Smith) 对地球智慧起源的三部曲探索终于迎来了万众期待的结局，该探索始于 2018 年的畅销书《其他思想》，并于 2020 年继续出版《后生动物》。

潜水哲学家彼得·戈弗雷-史密斯 (Peter Godfrey-Smith) 在《其他思想》中研究了感知的进化。在《后生动物》中，他询问了意识是如何塑造动物身体并被动物身体塑造的。现在，在《生活在地球上》中，他将这一问题更进一步，问道，生命是如何塑造我们的星球并被我们的星球塑造的？

他参观了大的活叠层石场，这是蓝藻利用太阳光将二氧化碳和水转化为生物物质并向大气中释放氧气的例子。大气中氧气的异常增加导致生物多样性的激增。植物和动物之间开始了激烈的共同进化，它们各自改变了周围的环境，使其他植物能够利用这些新的生态系统，从而进化出新的物种。从蓝藻，到藻类，再到蕨类植物、树木或草类，从原生生物，到无脊椎动物和鱼类，再到恐龙，再到鸟类和哺乳动物——我们的星球经历了生命形式的爆炸式增长，它们都对环境作出反应，并创造了新的环境，使其他生命得以进化。

在我们自己的进化路线上，一种起初不起眼的哺乳动物发生了新的变化，从树丛中走出来，栖息在新的稀树草原上，然后栖息在整个星球上。人类是地球上适应能力强的物种之一，也可以说是造成变化多的物种，人类仍然是 38 亿年生命形式改变周围世界历史的一部分。

在《生活在地球上》一书中，戈弗雷-史密斯带我们进行了一次地球生命历史的盛大之旅。他参观了卢旺达大猩猩和澳大利亚园丁鸟，回到了珊瑚礁和章鱼巢穴，思考了语言和写作的影响，并权衡了我们独特的力量所带来的责任，因为它们与工厂化养殖、栖息地保护、气候变化和动物实验有关。《生活在地球上》表明，人类属于地球这个无限复杂的系统，我们的思想是该系统的产物，但我们也是其中的一股作用力。我们是地球的生物，但地球的未来掌握在我们手中。这是我们所有人都要理解和接受的责任。

The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.

Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in Other Minds. In Metazoa he asked how that consciousness shaped and was shaped by animal bodies. Now, in Living on Earth, he takes that line of questioning a step further, asking, how has life shaped and been shaped by our planet?

He visits the largest living stromatolite fields, examples of how cyanobacteria began belching oxygen into the atmosphere as they converted carbon dioxide and water into living matter using the sun's light. The extraordinary increase in oxygen in the atmosphere resulted in an explosion in the diversity of life. And so began a riotous tangle of coevolution between plants and animals, as each changed the environment around them allowing others to utilise these new ecosystems and thus new species to evolve. From cyanobacteria, through algae on to ferns or trees or grasses, and from protists , through invertebrates and fish through the dinosaurs and on to birds and mammals – our planet has seen an explosion of life forms, all reacting to their environment and all creating new environments that allow other life to evolve.

In our own evolutionary line, an initially unremarkable mammal changed in new ways, evolving to come out of the trees to inhabit new savannas and then onto inhabit the whole planet. One of the most adaptable species ever found on Earth, and arguably the species causing the most change, humans are still part of this 3.8 billion year history of life forms changing the world around them.

In Living on Earth, Godfrey-Smith takes us on a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas and Australian bowerbirds, returns to coral reefs and octopus dens, considers the impact of language and writing, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring with them, as they relate to factory farming, habitat preservation, climate change, and the use of animals in experiments. Living on Earth shows that Humans belong to the infinitely complex system that is the Earth, and our minds are products of that system, but we are also an acting force within it. We are creatures of Earth, but we hold Earth's future in our hands. It is a responsibility that we must all understand and accept.

作者简介

彼得·戈弗雷-史密斯是悉尼大学历史和科学哲学的杰出教授。他著有五本书，包括畅销书《其他思想》（入围 2017 年皇家学会科学图书奖）和《自然选择》（凭借在科学哲学方面的杰出贡献荣获 2010 年拉卡托斯奖）。

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a distinguished professor of history and the philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. He is the author of five books, including the bestselling Other Minds, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize and Natural Selection, which won the 2010 Lakatos Award for an outstanding work on the philosophy of science.