THE RED CANARY: THE STORY OF THE FIRST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ANIMAL
Book ID/图书代码： 02000013B65158
English Summary/英文概要： The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Though his experiments failed, they paved the way for others to succeed when it was recognised that the canary needed to be both a product of nature and nurture. This highly original narrative, of huge contemporary relevance, reveals how the obsession with turning the wild canary from green to red heralded the exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 90年代克隆羊多利的诞生，对很多人来说，是一个新时代的开始：转基因动物时代。然而，这对业余科学家汉斯.邓克儿来说却不是什么新鲜事了。早在20年代，他就决定要转基因出一只红色的金丝雀。虽然他的实验失败了，但是他们为其他科学家的成功开辟了道路。当时，转基因金丝雀被定义为必须是自然和人工培育的共同产物。这个最初的定义具有巨大的时代意义，而且还流露出了对把绿色的野金丝雀转变成红色的痴迷。这预示着激动人心且充满争议的基因控制领域发展的到来。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：丰富的历史细节，加上引人入胜的角色---其中一些是人类，充满着科学观点。读《红雀》就像读一部精心的小说。----马特.李德利
作者运用高雅有趣的笔调，从历史的一小段中总结出一堂出人意料的重要课程。---星期日电讯报
在书中，作者对科学的掌握达到了一个行为和进化科学教授的高度。除了该书不仅通俗易懂而且引人入胜外，更让人惊讶的是作者通过对科学，哲学，历史和人类学的融会贯通得出自己对基因科学的理解，然后将之付诸语言。---新政治家
‘Rich in historical detail, studded with curious characters - some of them human - and brimming with scientific insights. The Red Canary reads like a fine novel’ Matt Ridley
‘Takes a small episode from history and draws a surprisingly important lesson from it,in an elegant and diverting way’ Sunday Telegraph
‘His grasp of the science involved is to be expected from a professor of behaviour and
evolution. What is more surprising is his capacity to make it not just comprehensible but fascinating, but making his own genetic cross of science, philosophy, history,sociology and narrative’ New Statesman
About the Author/作者介绍： 蒂姆.伯克黑德是谢菲尔德大学的教授，教动物行为学和科学史。他是英国皇家学院会员，他的探索鸟类生活的研究使他文明于世。他为独立报，新科学人，BBC野生动物撰稿。其还有作品《滥交》，《大海雀岛》，《鸟类剑桥百科全书》（该书获麦克尔文奖）和最近的《禽感》。已婚并有三个孩子，目前居住在谢菲尔德。Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife. Among his
other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal, and most recently, Bird Sense. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
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