What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's eye view of life, advocated by evolutionary biology, sees living bodies as mere vehicles for the replication of the genetic codes. But for a physiologist, working with the living organism, the view is a...(展开全部)

What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's eye view of life, advocated by evolutionary biology, sees living bodies as mere vehicles for the replication of the genetic codes. But for a physiologist, working with the living organism, the view is a...(展开全部)

本書作者安德依．馬金尼，以《法蘭西遺囑》榮獲一九九五年法國龔固爾獎和梅第西獎，是史上第一位同時獲得這兩大文學獎肯定的非法籍作家。 這本有著如詩般節奏的《生命的樂章》，是他的最新傑作，內容如歌如泣，讓人不忍釋卷。

May 24, 1941: Alexei Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow. But just before his debut, his parents -- his father a renowned playwright, and his mother a famed opera singer -- are exposed for their political indiscretions and held under arrest. With World War II on the brink, and fearing that his own entrapment is not far behind, Alexei fl...(展开全部)

本書作者安德依．馬金尼，以《法蘭西遺囑》榮獲一九九五年法國龔固爾獎和梅第西獎，是史上第一位同時獲得這兩大文學獎肯定的非法籍作家。 這本有著如詩般節奏的《生命的樂章》，是他的最新傑作，內容如歌如泣，讓人不忍釋卷。

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads. Musical interactions are often also economic interactions, for example, and sometimes political interactions. They can be forms of identity work, for both individuals and collectives, contributing to the reproduction or bridging of so...(展开全部)

Mahlon Hoagland, a noted molecular biologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, is best known as discoverer of amino acid activating enzymes and codiscoverer of transfer RNA. A winner of the Franklin Medal, he is former Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School. He has written four books about science for the public. Bert Dodson h...(展开全部)

Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to “survival machines” whose sole purpose was to preserve “the selfish molecules known as genes.” How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mystery. Standing atop a wealth of new research, The Society of Genes now provides a vision of how genes...(展开全部)

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provide...(展开全部)

吉姆·艾尔—哈利利 ● 英国萨里大学物理学教授，最具影响力的量子生物学家。 ● 1989年，在英国萨里大学获得核反应理论博士学位。 ● 1992年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，开始了为期五年的研究工作，他差不多每两个月就发表一篇论文，有些论文的引用次数超过500次。 ● 从20世纪90年代末开始，研究领域转向量子生物学，“量子隧穿”是他的研究重点。1999年，他与生物学家约翰乔·麦克法登联合发表了量子生物学方面的论文。2012年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，他与约翰乔·麦克法登共同主办了量子生物学研讨会，并获得极大成功。2015年，他以量子生物学为主题做了TED演讲。 ● 2005—2007年，他参与拍摄BBC的纪录片《爱因斯坦大脑之谜》和《原子》，广受好评，他于2011年开始在BBC制作广播节目《生命科学》，每周吸引的听众数量高达2...(展开全部)