Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was threatened by opposing concepts such as group selection, a popular idea stating that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individual...(展开全部)

Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was threatened by opposing concepts such as group selection, a popular idea stating that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individual...(展开全部)

Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product u...(展开全部)

奥克塔维娅·E. 巴特勒（1947—2006） 科幻界颇负盛名的非裔美籍女作家，获得过两次雨果奖、两次星云奖和一次轨迹奖。1995 年成为第一位以科幻小说获得麦克阿瑟天才奖的作家，2000 年获得美国笔会颁发的文学写作终身成就奖，2010 年入选科幻奇幻名人堂。 莫昕， 现居加拿大。爱好翻译，喜欢人文社科题材。已出版的译作：《卡尔·波普尔：理性与传统》《岁月》《梦游者》《无法翻译的世界之诗》丛书等。

al readers how Complexity--the watershed science agenda for at least the nexttwo decades--is affecting our lives.

al readers how Complexity--the watershed science agenda for at least the nexttwo decades--is affecting our lives.

""Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes."" For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden. In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unf...(展开全部)

In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated meth...(展开全部)

"The Evolutionary World" presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but the development of human civilization, and by understanding how evolutionary theory has played out in areas such as our economic system, our preparation for catastrophes, and even the development of communities, we can learn...(展开全部)

"The Evolutionary World" presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but the development of human civilization, and by understanding how evolutionary theory has played out in areas such as our economic system, our preparation for catastrophes, and even the development of communities, we can learn...(展开全部)