《遗书：达尔文的幻想》[有声书]

English | ASIN: B0D84DCMGC | 2024 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 552 MB

From one of the world’s great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history. In this groundbreaking 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 is a revolutionary, rich book that unlocks the door to an ancient past, seen through wholly new eyes.

从一位世界杰出的科学作家手中，一本探讨进化历史最深层次原则的著作。在这一开创性的方法中，理查德·道金斯展示了所有生命体的身体、行为和基因可以像书一样被解读——一个保存着它们祖先世界的档案。一只伪装得完美的沙漠蜥蜴在其背部上画有一幅风干的沙石景观图。它的皮肤可以被视为对古代沙漠生存环境的描述——并且在那之前，是对于它更遥远祖先的世界：一本死者的基因书。然而，这样的描述远不止停留在表皮之下。达尔文自然选择的精致刻刀深入到了身体的每一个纤维中，在每一处细胞里，每一种生命体里都留下了痕迹。 未来的一名动物学家将能够重建那些塑造了它的祖先的世界，并读出它那独一无二的“死者的书”。这本书中充满了达尔文自然选择构建精美完美这一力量所带来的一些令人惊异的例子。这些例子同时伴随着看起来像是粗俗错误的东西。在过程中，道金斯解构了对生命之物从基因角度观察的有影响力批评。以一种挑衅的方式，在结尾处，作者提出所有我们所谓的“自我”的基因是否可以看做是一群协同合作的病毒？这是从《自私的基因》和《祖先的旅人》一书的作者手中获得的一本革命性的、丰富的书籍，它打开了通向一个全新的古老过去的大门。

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