The animal world is full of mysteries. Why do dogs slurp from their drinking bowls while cats lap up water with a delicate flick of the tongue? How does a tiny turtle hatchling from Florida circle the entire northern Atlantic before returning to the very beach where it hatched? And how can a Komodo dragon kill a water buffalo with a bite only as strong as a domestic cat's? Thes...(展开全部)

The animal world is full of mysteries. Why do dogs slurp from their drinking bowls while cats lap up water with a delicate flick of the tongue? How does a tiny turtle hatchling from Florida circle the entire northern Atlantic before returning to the very beach where it hatched? And how can a Komodo dragon kill a water buffalo with a bite only as strong as a domestic cat's? Thes...(展开全部)

In "The Logic of Life", Francois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.

In "The Logic of Life", Francois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal communities, Animal Life explores and explains every aspect of animal behavior, including courtship and mating rituals, family relationships and defense mechanisms, hunting techniques and feeding habits. Now in paperback!

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal communities, Animal Life explores and explains every aspect of animal behavior, including courtship and mating rituals, family relationships and defense mechanisms, hunting techniques and feeding habits. Now in paperback!

When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at h...(展开全部)

From one of the finest naturalist/writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal wo...(展开全部)

“The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written.”―Michel Foucault Nobel Prize–winning scientist François Jacob’s The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacob considers the fundamental feature of living things, he shows how, since the sixteenth century, the scientific understanding of inherited t...(展开全部)

这是一本关于生物学——特别是遗传学——的历史回顾。在书中，弗朗索瓦·雅各布重新考察了生命、时间、偶然、个体这些观念——从宏观到微观再到分子的尺度。 很久以来，人类一直依据外形对生物进行分类。十八世纪之后，人们将目光转向细胞，在细胞内寻找“隐藏的生命建筑”，直到十九世纪发现了基因，二十世纪解析了DNA的双螺旋结构，开启了分子生物学时代。在《生命的逻辑》一书中，雅各布清晰地展示了每一次大规模的认知转变都是一次智识革命，彻底改变了人类对自身在宇宙中置身何处的理解。 本书以遗传学的发展为例，诠释了关于生物系统的普适理论形成的历程，描绘了科学发展的内在逻辑，论述了知识储备、技术条件与想像力如何为科学突破做好了铺垫。 最后，雅各布探讨了我们这个时代仍在面对的若干基本问题：基因在何种程度上塑造了人类的行为？环境与人类的发育是什么关系？人类现在可以决定自己的演化了吗...(展开全部)