CELLS TO CIVILIZATIONS: THE PRINCIPLES OF CHANGE THAT SHAPE LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 13000511B49891
English Summary/英文概要： A world-leading scientist provides an eloquent sweep through the history of modern biology, surveying the latest developments and controversies to reveal the deep beauty and unity of life. In the 1980s, Enrico Coen helped to place the lowly snapdragon in the spotlight. His work at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, used these flowers as a model organism for studying plant development. Identifying and cloning several genes that affect flower shape, size and colour, he and his colleagues developed a model to describe how genes interact to direct flower formation – contributions that have earned him numerous awards and recognition.
It has since become clear that many of the basic principles of plant development can be applied to animals, too. And now, in Life’s Creative Recipe, Coen draws on these findings to outline a new unified theory of biology. Whether in evolution, development or learning, life seems to delight in going from the simple to the complex, he says; and for the first time in a book aimed at a general readership, he attempts to unravel the essential ingredients of what he calls life’s creative recipe: the common principles that account for how elementary beings evolved over billions of years into a vast array of complex species; how a microscopic egg transforms itself into a tree, butterfly or peacock; how a helpless newborn child turns into a walking, talking reasoning adult – and how these related transformations extend into our own culture and creativity.
In the grand tradition of Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe and Roger Penrose’s The Road to Reality, Life Unmasked is an important, original and ambitious work. One of the book’s distinctive features is the reproduction of paintings by artists such as Cezanne, Monet and Botticelli to illustrate its central themes and ideas. As Coen notes, there are many parallels between the artistic process and life’s creative recipe. It’s through this highly interwoven and often surprising story that the hidden unity of life becomes revealed.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 世界领先的科学家提供了一个雄辩横扫现代生物学的历史，测量的最新发展和争论的深刻揭示美与生命的统一性。在20世纪80年代，恩里科·科恩(Enrico Coen)让金鱼草卑微的生活在聚光灯下。 他的工作在约翰恩尼斯中心(John Innes Centre)在诺威治，英国(Norwich, UK)，用这些花朵作为一种生物模型研究植物的发展。识别和克隆几个基因影响花形状、大小和颜色,他和他的同事们开发了一种模型来描述如何直接相互作用的基因，形成贡献花－为他赢得了无数的奖项和认可。
它已经成为许多植物生长发育的基本原则，也可以适用于动物。而现在，在生活的创意食谱，科恩从这些调查结果，勾勒出一个新的统一的生物学理论。无论是在进化，发展或学习，生命似乎喜爱从简单变为复杂，他说，和第一次在一本书针对一般读者，试图要解开他所谓的“生活的创意食谱”中的必要成分：共性原则可以解释如何基本存在能在数十亿年变成一个庞大，数组复杂的物种；一个微小的蛋如何变成一棵树，蝴蝶或孔雀；一个无助的新生婴儿如何变成一位会走，说话并能理解的成人－推理相关的变换延伸到我们自己的文化和创造力。
在理查德·道金(Richard Dawkin)的《自私的基因》(The Selfish Gene)，布瑞恩·格林尼(Brian Greene)的《优雅的宇宙》(The Elegant Universe)和罗杰·彭罗斯路(Roger Penrose)的《到现实生活》(The Road to Reality)的隆重的传统中，《生活揭密》(Life Unmasked)是一个重要的，本质的和雄心勃勃的作品。本书的显著特点之一是艺术家，如塞尚(Cezanne)，莫奈(Monet)和波提切利(Botticelli)的绘画再现说明其中心主题和思想。正如科恩指出，艺术创作过程和生活的创意食谱之间有许多相似之处。通过这个高度相互交织和往往令人吃惊的故事，透露了生命的团结。（LNL & CK）
Awards/获奖情况：其他出售权利国：德国(Hanser)
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"有眼光的科学报告，把科学家的报告与精细和集中的摘引交织在一起。。。给人一种身临其境的感觉，发现实际过程中的参与。“—《新科学家》(New Scientist)
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"Cunning interweaving of scientific reporting and fine and focused quotes from the scientists…gives a feeling of being there, of involvement with the actual process of discovery."－ New Scientist
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About the Author/作者介绍： 恩里科·科恩(Enrico Coen)是在诺里奇(Norwich)，约翰·英纳斯中心(John Innes Centre)细胞和发育生物学的项目负责人。他的作品经常发表在顶尖期刊中，如《科学，自然和细胞》(Science, Nature and Cell)，也为流行科学杂志写作。他在世界各地的科学会议讲课，并给出了一般观众的欢迎会谈。1998年，他被选为英国皇家学会研究员，而在2001年被选为美国国家科学院外籍院士。他也得到“欧洲分子生物学”的奖牌，科学艺术奖，林奈金奖和英国皇家学会达尔文奖章奖章。除了他的科学活动，他喜欢画画。
ENRICO COEN is a project leader in cell and developmental biology at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. His work is regularly published in top journals such as Science, Nature and Cell and he has also written for popular science magazines. He lectures throughout the world at scientific meetings and gives popular talks to general audiences. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1998 and foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2001. He has also been awarded the EMBO Medal, the Science for Art Prize, the Linnean Gold Medal and the Royal Society Darwin Medal. Besides his scientific activities, he likes to paint.
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