《为什么动物会说话》是一次穿越动物交流的原始世界的科学之旅。 从狼威严的嚎叫声、鹦鹉迷人的叽叽喳喳声，到海豚旋律优美的咔哒声和黑猩猩活泼的咕噜声，这些多样化且看似怪异的表情绝非纯粹的噪音。 事实上，他们掌握着我们刚刚开始破译的秘密。 例如，狼和人类一样，拥有独特的口音来区分它们的嚎叫声，海豚不仅给自己起名字，而且它们还会对久违的同伴的口哨声录音做出兴奋的反应。 克申鲍姆逐章、逐动物地阐述了他对野生动物的广泛研究和观察，解释了动物交流背后的科学原理。 《为什么动物会说话》还揭示了对我们自己的语言及其不同之处的深刻见解，讲述了交流的故事以及它如何在整个动物王国中发挥作用。 Why Animals Talk is a scientific journey through the untamed world of animal communicatio...(展开全部)

《动物为什么说话》是一场穿越未驯服的动物交流世界的科学之旅。从狼的雄伟嚎叫和鹦鹉的迷人喋喋不休到海豚的悦耳咔哒声和黑猩猩的活泼咕噜声，这些多样而看似奇怪的表达远非噪音。事实上，它们蕴藏着我们刚刚开始破译的秘密。 例如，狼——就像人类一样——拥有独特的口音来区分它们的嚎叫；长臂猿对豹子和蛇有不同的报警声，并与伴侣唱浪漫的二重唱；海豚不仅会给自己起名字，还会兴奋地回应失散已久的同伴的口哨声录音。 一章一章地，每一种动物，克申鲍姆都利用他对野生动物的广泛研究和观察来解释动物交流背后的科学原理。《动物为什么说话》还揭示了我们自己的语言以及它为什么与众不同的深刻见解，从而讲述了交流的故事以及它在整个动物界是如何运作的。 Why Animals Talk is a scientific journey through the untamed world of a...(展开全部)

Animal communication has forever seemed intelligible. We are surrounded by animals and the cacophony of sounds that they make—from the chirping of songbirds to the growls of lions on the savanna—but we have yet to fully understand why animals communicate the way they do. What are they saying? This is only part of the mystery. To go deeper, we must also ask, what is motivating t...(展开全部)

If animal behavior is mostly instinctual, why do animals need to communicate? Is it possible that there is a universal language spoken and understood by all animals on earth, including humans? Do barks, growls, rumbles, chirps, yips, and meows have communicative meanings?"No matter what species," writes acclaimed science journalist Tim Friend, "we're all concerned with the same...(展开全部)

罗伯特·赖特（Robert Wright） 美国前总统克林顿智囊、全球百位最具影响力思想家之一 《新共和》高级编辑，《大西洋月刊》、《纽约客》、《时代》等杂志的撰稿人，曾供职于《科学》杂志。他关于科学、技术和哲学的文章曾获国家期刊奖。他的著作《三个科学家及其上帝：寻找信息时代的意义》曾获美国国家图书奖提名。

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence “Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

朱迪亚·珀尓（Judea Pearl） 现加州大学洛杉矶分校计算机科学教授，“贝叶斯网络”之父，2011年因创立因果推理演算法获得图灵奖，同时也是美国国家科学院院士，IEEE 智能系统名人堂第一批10位入选者之一。目前已出版3本关于因果关系科学的经典著作，分别为《启发法》(1984)、《智能系统中的概率推理》(1988) 和《因果论：模型、论证、推理》(2009)。他还获得过多项顶级科学荣誉，包括认知科学领域的鲁梅哈特奖、物理学及技术领域的富兰克林奖章以及科学哲学领域的拉卡托斯奖。 达纳·麦肯齐（Dana Mackenzie） 普林斯顿大学数学博士，自由科学记者，知名科普作家，著有《无言的宇宙》等作品，其学术论文多次收录于《科学》《新科学家》《科学美国》《探索》等重量级期刊。

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert,...(展开全部)

Nesse and Williams have written a lively discourse on the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the dilemmas of modern medicine. Nesse, a physician and an associate professor of psychiatry, and Williams, a professor of ecology and evolution, provide a primer on Darwin's theory of natural selection. They explain that the functional design of organisms-e.g., ou...(展开全部)