LIFE BEYOND MOLECULES AND GENES: HOW OUR ADAPTATIONS MAKE US ALIVE
Book ID/图书代码： 12686009B33991
English Summary/英文概要： What makes us alive? Is it our DNA? Our genetics? Is it our atomic composition that gives us life? Somehow, all of this feels radically dissonant from our everyday experience. In Life beyond Molecules and Genes, experimental biologist Stephen Rothman makes the bold case that it is, in fact, our adaptive abilities, hewn by evolution, that make us alive. In making this point, he reveals a hidden harmony between science and life as we live it.
The traditionally accepted understanding of adaptive properties (e.g. the abilities to obtain food, avoid predators, procreate, etc.) has been that these are actions of living things or traits that they express. Rothman makes the provocative assertion that this foundational element of the modern materialist perspective is entirely backwards. Our adaptive properties do not exist because we are alive, but rather we are alive because they exist. The implications of this assertion turn the theory of evolution by natural selection on its head by revealing that life transcends its material nature.
Students and scholars of the biological sciences as well as those interested in the philosophy of science will find this work both fascinating and challenging, perhaps even controversial. For centuries, the field of biology has focused on the seemingly mundane task of identifying and cataloging life’s chemical substances, while ignoring its grand question: “What is it that makes us alive?” With Life beyond Molecules and Genes, perhaps the field will move a bit closer toward an answer.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 什么令我们存活于世？DNA？遗传学？还是我们身体内部的原子构造？但是，上述这些却都与我们的日常生活格格不入。现在，临床生物学家 Stephen Rothman 将带来大胆的假设：是人类神奇的自我适应能力，让我们立足于世。
对于一些共有的生存特性 (比如觅食、躲避掠食者、繁衍后代等等)，固有的观念认为，这是生物本能所表现出的特征。但 Stephen Rothman 却指出，这样的观点实则是基于唯物主义的形而上学。不是因为我们存在，才会有这样的形态；相反，正是因为拥有这样的形态，才帮助我们存活了下来。本书将彻底颠覆生物进化论中物竞天择的说法，并证明生命本生是凌驾于物质本性之上的。
本书会对生物学及科学哲学的相关人士带来新的启示，当然也有挑战和争议。(WHL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Stephen Rothman is emeritus professor of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He was an experimental biologist for more than forty years and is presently engaged in a writing project that considers some of biology’s most difficult questions. Best known for his landmark studies on the transport of protein molecules across biological membranes, he has made notable contributions in everything from molecular biology to whole-animal physiology, and has written or edited seven books, and published more than two-hundred articles in Nature, Science, and other prestigious scientific journals.
本书作者 Stephen Rothman ，旧金山加利福尼亚大学生物学名誉教授；四十年生物领域的丰富经验，针对蛋白质分子于生物膜之间的传输机制，曾发表著名的学术报告。他对分子生物学、动物生理学的研究同样贡献卓著，先后编著七本著作，于自然(Nature)、科学(Science)等权威科学杂志上刊登过二百余篇的文章。
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