DAZZLED AND DECEIVED: MIMICRY AND CAMOUFLAGE

Book ID/图书代码： 00530008B28440

English Summary/英文概要： Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practiced camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature’s fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious – but how does ‘blind’ nature do it? And how has humanity learnt to profit from nature’s ploys?
Dazzled and Deceived tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes’s cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the perennial dispute between evolution and creationism.
Dazzled and Deceived chronicles the battle for the true course of evolution: the battle between the Big Endians and the Little Endians. This is the dispute between those – from Darwin to Richard Dawkins – who believe that natural selection works cumulatively on tiny variations, and those who believe that large leaps in form have led to new organs and patterns and, ultimately, to new species. Dazzled and Deceived shows how this war of ideas reached an honourable resolution in the new science of Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo Devo).
Dazzled and Deceived chronicles the battle for the true course of evolution: the battle between the Big Endians and the Little Endians. This is the dispute between those – from Darwin to Richard Dawkins – who believe that natural selection works cumulatively on tiny variations, and those who believe that large leaps in form have led to new organs and patterns and, ultimately, to new species. Dazzled and Deceived shows how this war of ideas reached an honourable resolution in the new science of Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo Devo).

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自然美化了艺术的伪装。百亿年来，世上成千上万的生物，包括蝴蝶、飞蛾、鱼、鸟、昆虫和蛇磨练了伪装的技术。自然界的生物通过模仿其他动物或者周身的环境从而保护自己的安全。模仿的优势毫无疑问，但，究竟自然是如何做到的呢？而人又是如何习得而来的呢？本书讲述了科学、艺术、战事以及自然界的一些独一无二引人入胜的模仿故事。模仿现象是由英国青年自然学家亨利•沃特•巴斯（Henry Walter Bates）和阿尔弗雷德•罗素•沃莱斯（Alfred Russel Wallace）在亚马逊热带雨林发现的，其影响堪比达尔文的自然选择论。但是，模仿和伪装在实验室外同样很有影响。作者靠其文化历史底蕴，将模仿和伪装联系到贯穿20世纪的艺术、军事策略和医学治疗，以及进化和创造之间的争议。弗贝斯清晰地阐释了模仿的概念，随后又引入了多姿多彩的故事和罗素、毕加索、纳博科夫、丘吉尔、达尔文等伟大人物，他们都或多或少受到过影响和启迪。本书有助于深层次了解生命的进程。(XJJ)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•弗贝斯（Peter Forbes）是作家，记者，也是编辑，长期以来一直对艺术和科学间的关系很感兴趣。他还写过《壁虎之脚》（The Gecko’s Foot）。他从2004年起一直是伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院皇家文学基金成员。

Peter Forbes is a writer, journalist and editor with a longstanding interest in the relationship between art and science. He read Chemistry at Bristol University and has written columns and reviews for many magazines and newspapers, including the Guardian, Independent, Daily Mail, Scientific American, New Statesman, Modern Painters, and New Scientist. He wrote a series of articles on Bio-inspiration for the Guardian (2001-3). He was Editor of Poetry Review, the UK’s leading poetry magazine, published by the Poetry Society, from 1986 to 2002. His first full-length non-fiction book, The Gecko’s Foot (Fourth Estate, 2005) was longlisted for the Aventis Prize. From 2004-6 he was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

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