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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

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內容簡介 From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history. 在這一開創性的全新觀點中，理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins）展示了所有生命的演化過程，如何將每個生物的身體、行為和基因視為一本書——這是其祖先世界的檔案。一隻完美偽裝的沙漠蜥蜴背上“畫”著乾燥的沙石景觀。它的皮膚可以被解讀為其祖先曾生存的古老沙漠的描述，而在那之前，則是更遙遠祖先的世界：一部死者的基因書。但這些描述不僅僅是表面現象。達爾文自然選擇的精細雕刻刀穿透身體的結構，深入每個生化的隱秘角落，進入每個生物的每一個細胞。未來的一位動物學家，面對一種未知的動物，將能夠重建塑造其祖先的世界，閱讀其獨特的“死者之書”。這本書充滿了引人入勝的例子，展示了達爾文自然選擇的力量如何構建出精美的完美，並且矛盾地伴隨著看似重大錯誤的現象。在此過程中，道金斯駁斥了對“基因視角”生命觀的影響力批評。最後，作者提出了一個挑釁性的問題：是否有一種意義可以將我們所有的“自有”基因視為一個巨大的合作病毒群體？這是《自私的基因》的作者帶來的一本革命性、豐富插圖的書，通過全新的視角打開了通往古老過去的大門。THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024GUARDIAN BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2024ECONOMIST BEST BOOKS OF 2024FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2024From 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.

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作者介紹 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 God 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 God Delusion by Richard Dawkins into Slovak, she began contributing to his books as an illustrator.

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最佳賣點 : 《自私的基因》、《盲眼鐘錶匠》作者理查‧道金斯，以全新觀點帶領讀者進入生物的祖先們的基因世界！

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