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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

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內容簡介 【改寫我們對世界的理解】地球不只是星球它是有生命的存在一部激進且發人深省的作品，重新定義我們對地球的理解——它不僅僅是一顆孕育生命的無生命行星，而是一顆逐漸「活了起來」的星球。將地球視為一個「活著的世界」是人類最古老的信念之一。雖然這一概念曾遭許多科學家譏諷，但近幾十年來，它已逐漸獲得認同。生命不僅適應環境，也以戲劇性且持久的方式改變環境。數十億年來，生命將一顆冰冷的行星轉變為我們的宇宙綠洲：賦予大氣氧氣、調製出現代的海洋、將岩石變成肥沃的土壤。生命與地球調節氣候、維持平衡的能力緊密交織。透過引人入勝的敘事、細膩的描述和清晰的解釋，費里斯．賈布爾（Ferris Jabr）帶領我們理解地球如何成為我們熟知的模樣、又如何迅速變成一個截然不同的世界，以及我們將如何決定後代千年以後繼承的地球樣貌。「充滿概念上的反轉與精彩的人物描繪。」——艾德．雍（Ed Yong，《廣闊無垠的世界》作者）「詩意……引人入勝……清晰易懂。」——《泰晤士文學增刊》「視野廣闊、令人深思。」——《衛報》「一部關於萬物相互聯繫的動人之作。」——《新科學人》A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life.‘Full of conceptual twists and wonderful character’ - Ed Yong, author of An Immense World'Poetic . . . engaging . . . lucid' - The Times Literary SupplementThe notion of a living world is one of humanity’s oldest beliefs. Though once scorned by many scientists, the concept of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. Life not only adapts to its surroundings – it also shapes them in dramatic and enduring ways. Over billions of years, life transformed a lump of orbiting rock into our cosmic oasis, breathing oxygen into the atmosphere, concocting the modern oceans, and turning rock into fertile soil. Life is intertwined with Earth’s capacity to regulate its climate and maintain balance.Through compelling narrative, evocative descriptions and lucid explanations, Ferris Jabr shows us how Earth became the world we’ve known, how it is rapidly becoming a very different world, and how we will determine what kind of Earth our descendants inherit for millennia to come.'Wide-ranging and thought-provoking' - The Guardian'A compelling account of interconnectedness' - New Scientist

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作者介紹 Ferris JabrFerris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, Wired, Outside, Lapham’s Quarterly, McSweeney’s, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. He is a recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from UC Berkeley and the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program. His work has been anthologized in the 2014, 2020, and 2023 editions of Best American Science and Nature Writing. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his husband, Ryan, their dog, Jack, and more plants than they can count.

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最佳賣點 : A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but