主题：【原创】达尔文之前的那些事儿 -- 游识猷

Genetics of Orginal Sin

- The impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity

Christian de Duve (Nobel Laureate) with Neil Patterson

Yale University Press 2010

576.8 DED

ISBN 978-0-300-16507-4

因为教会的创世论和达尔文的进化论有很多的争议, 特别到图书馆找到了达尔文的原著和其他书籍.

<原罪的基因> 一书是我看到的最好的. 不知道有没有中译本. 很想推荐给中文的读者. 作者是获得过诺奖的资深望重的老教授.

The Violinnist's Thumb

and other lost tales of love, war and genius, as written by our genetic code

SAM KEAN

572.8 KEA

Part I ACGT and You, how to read a genetic score

1. Genes, freaks, DNA: how do living things pass down traits to their children?

2. The near death of Darwin: why did geneticists try to kill natural selection?

3. Them's the DNA breaks: how does nature read and misread DNA?

4. The musical score of DNA: what kinds of information does DNA store?

Part II Our Animal Past: Making things that crawl and frolic and kill

5. DNA vindication: why did life evolve so slowly then explode in complexity?

6. The survivors, the livers: what's our most ancient and important DNA?

7. The Machiavelli microbe: how much human DNA is actually human?

8. Love and atavisms: what genes make mammals mammals?

9. Humanzees and other near misses: when did humans break away from monkeys, and why?

Part III Genes and Geniuses: how humans became all to human

10. Scarlet ACGT: why did humans almost go extinct?

11. Size matters: how did humans get such grotesquely large brains?

12. The art of the gene: how deep in our DNA is artistic genius?

Part IV The Oracle of DNA: genetics in the past, present and future

13. The past is prologue - sometimes: what can and can't genes teach us about historical heroes?

14. Three billion little pieces: why don't humans have more genes that other species?

15. Easy come, easy go? How come identical twins aren't identical?

16. Life as we do and don't know it: what the heck will happen now.

Epilogue: genomics gets personal