罗德尼•迪塔特（Rodney Dietert）是康奈尔大学免疫毒理学的教授，也是康奈尔环境毒理学教学科研机构的成员，他的学术专著发表在超过60种专业期刊上。作为一个演讲者，迪特参加各种世界级的论坛，到访100多个国家，他的观众包括科研机构、政府组织、大学学院、私人企业、健康倡导组织等。他在微生物研究界颇有声望，还作为嘉宾出现在2014年的获奖纪录片Microbirth里面。他将毕生心血致力于研究因环境引起的各类慢性疾病对人类（特别是儿童）造成的影响，并寻求解决途径，保护人类的健康。

【作者】阿方索·马丁内斯·阿里亚斯（Alfonso Martinez Arias） 发育生物学家，西班牙庞培法布拉大学教授。曾任英国剑桥大学遗传学系教授十余年，为《自然》《科学》《细胞科学杂志》等期刊定期审稿。因其对英国发育生物学的贡献，于2012年获得了英国发育生物学协会颁发的沃丁顿奖章。 【译者】祝锦杰 北京大学医学学士，香港浸会大学翻译与双语交流专业硕士。《环球科学》《好奇号》译者，已出版译著有《哥德尔传》《神秘的量子生命》《人人都该懂的遗传学》《人人都该懂的克隆技术》等。

"What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, const...(展开全部)

With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs and an easy understandable text The Buzz about Bees tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, JA1/4rgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realms of bees. In contrast to the view of bee colonies as perfect societies of selfless individuals ruled by a ...(展开全部)

A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human lives We are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives have been falling as a result of scientific advance, such as decoding the genomes of hum...(展开全部)

A closer look at genealogy, incorporating how biological, anthropological, and technical factors can influence human lives We are at a pivotal moment in understanding our remote ancestry and its implications for how we live today. The barriers to what we can know about our distant relatives have been falling as a result of scientific advance, such as decoding the genomes of hum...(展开全部)

Do you want your life to be perfect? We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier , the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. O...(展开全部)

Do you want your life to be perfect? We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way - to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Happier", the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. Or do you ...(展开全部)

Discover compelling scientific evidence for the value of fun - and of how having more of it will help you achieve better work-life balance, reduce stress and much more. Doesn't it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes? There is an easy fix, hiding in plain sight. Fun is an action you can take here and now, practically anywhere, anytime. There is a mu...(展开全部)