A beautifully illustrated volume follows a lesser-known Victorian naturalist and explorer on his global journeys — and reveals how he developed his own theory of evolution. Everyone knows Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist who proposed a theory of evolution. But not everyone knows the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s friend and rival who simultaneously discovered the...(展开全部)

Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded t...(展开全部)

Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded t...(展开全部)

A terrifying disease, or the next step in human evolution? Three scientists must battle to find the truth in this heart-stopping technothriller. Mitch Rafelson makes a major discovery high in the Alps -- the preserved bodies of a Neanderthal family with a human child. Kaye Lang investigates a mass grave in the Caucasus -- the bodies are mutated. Christopher Dicken tracks a m...(展开全部)

A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes...(展开全部)

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1995) is a book by Daniel Dennett which argues that Darwinian processes are the central organizing force that gives rise to complexity. Dennett asserts that and evolution of life including the ins and outs of human minds and societies. These assertions have generated a great deal of debate and discussion within the sc...(展开全部)

阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔(Alasdair MacIntyre，1929-)是活跃在英美哲学界、伦理学界的著名哲学家、伦理学家，德性伦理学的主要代表人物。早年就读于英国曼彻斯特大学，先后执教于英国的曼彻斯特大学、利兹大学，美国的波士顿大学、维特比德大学等多所大学，担任过社会学和思想史教授、哲学和政治学教授，现执教于美国鹿特丹大学哲学系，是该校哲学系的麦克马洪和哈克荣誉席教授。麦金太尔自50年代起，发表了大量著述，主要著作有：《马克思主义与基督教》(1953年)、《论无意识》(1957年)、《伦理学简史》(1966年)、《对时代自我形像的批判》(1971年)、《追寻美德》(1981年)，《谁之正义？何种合理性？》(1988年)。

While Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was brilliant, natural selection ignores a crucial force that helps to explain the diversity and wonder of life: symbiosis. In Darwin's Blind Spot, Frank Ryan shows how the blending of life forms through symbiosis has resulted in gigantic leaps in evolution. The dependence of many flowering plants on insects and birds for pollination i...(展开全部)

While Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was brilliant, natural selection ignores a crucial force that helps to explain the diversity and wonder of life: symbiosis. In Darwin's Blind Spot, Frank Ryan shows how the blending of life forms through symbiosis has resulted in gigantic leaps in evolution. The dependence of many flowering plants on insects and birds for pollination i...(展开全部)