DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed it contains a detailed record of evolution. That is, DNA is a living chronicle of how the marvelous creatures that inhabit our planet ...(展开全部)

Synopsis In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we'...(展开全部)

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied...(展开全部)

Synopsis In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we'...(展开全部)

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied...(展开全部)

Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engin...(展开全部)

南茜・埃特考夫Nancy Etcoff 美国哈佛大学硕士，波士顿大学心理学博士，曾获麻省理工学院大脑及认知科学博士后奖学金。目前，她任教于哈佛大学医学院，并在马萨诸塞州综合医院任心理医生。现居住在马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇市。

In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring myths, that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, skewers the enduring myth that the pursuit of beauty...(展开全部)

[美]马丁•诺瓦克 (Martin A. Nowak) ★哈佛大学数学与生物学教授，进化动力学中心（PED）主任，与著名生物学家理查德•道金斯和爱德华•威尔逊齐名的科学巨星。 ★继达尔文之后为进化论作出突破性贡献的第一人，他的研究结果告诉我们：合作是继突变和自然选择 之后的第3个进化原则。 ★32岁就成为牛津大学数学生物学教授。在普林斯顿高等研究院创建世界第一个理论生物学项目。 ★将数学应用于生物学的先行者，在病毒动力学、癌细胞进化、空间博弈、间接互惠、演化图论、语言进化等方面皆有建树。在《自然》《科学》《科学美国人》等杂志上发表了350多篇论文，H指数80。 [美]罗杰•海菲尔德 (Roger Highfield) ★《新科学家》杂志（New Scientist）编辑，科普畅销书作家。

[美]马丁•诺瓦克 (Martin A. Nowak) ★哈佛大学数学与生物学教授，进化动力学中心（PED）主任，与著名生物学家理查德•道金斯和爱德华•威尔逊齐名的科学巨星。 ★继达尔文之后为进化论作出突破性贡献的第一人，他的研究结果告诉我们：合作是继突变和自然选择 之后的第3个进化原则。 ★32岁就成为牛津大学数学生物学教授。在普林斯顿高等研究院创建世界第一个理论生物学项目。 ★将数学应用于生物学的先行者，在病毒动力学、癌细胞进化、空间博弈、间接互惠、演化图论、语言进化等方面皆有建树。在《自然》《科学》《科学美国人》等杂志上发表了350多篇论文，H指数80。 [美]罗杰•海菲尔德 (Roger Highfield) ★《新科学家》杂志（New Scientist）编辑，科普畅销书作家。