The power of Darwin's theory of natural selection is beyond doubt, it explains how useful adaptations are preserved over generations. But evolution's biggest mystery eluded Darwin: how those adaptations arise in the first place. Can random mutations over a 3.8 billion years be solely responsible for wings, eyeballs, knees, photosynthesis, and the rest of nature's creative marve...(展开全部)

Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting-edge advances in understanding human evolution and climate change with...(展开全部)

Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits. In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection thr...(展开全部)

马特·西蒙｜Matt Simon 《连线》（Wired）杂志科普专栏作家，美国图书馆协会亚历克斯奖得主，专攻动物学科普，尤其了解那些奇异的物种。西蒙是一名媒体工作者，也是科普及科技作家，由他撰写的《连线》杂志科学专栏“怪诞生物每周科考”（Absurd Creature of the Week）颇受好评。另外，他在《连线》的第二个专栏“难以置信的错误”（Fantastically Wrong）则探讨了民间文学和科学中那些最稀奇古怪的错误。

戴维·乔治·哈斯凯尔（David George Haskell），美国南方大学教授以及古根海姆研究员（Guggenheim Fellow），致力于生物及环境方面的研究。2017 年他的《树木之歌》获得了约翰·巴勒斯杰出自然写作奖。2012 年他的《看不见的森林》入围普利策奖，并获得2013年美国国家科学院最佳图书奖、美国户外图书奖。

We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. David Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. In rain forests shimmering with insect sound and swamps pulsing with frog calls we learn about evolution’s creative powers. From birds in the Rocky Mountains and on the streets of Paris, we discover how animals learn their songs and adapt to new environments. Below the w...(展开全部)