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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions Of Evolution (2009)

by Nick Lane(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 6

ISBN

0393065960 (ISBN13: 9780393065961)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: "yasamin yukselisi" seklinde turkceye kazandirilmis cok onemli bir kitap.. tesekkurler ebru kilic... hayatin olusumu ve evrimin "basarisi" uzerine 10 farkli temayi incelemis. aslinda farkli demek dogru degil.. ilk temalari koken, dna, fotosentez ve karmasik hucre bolumleri cok ama cok basrili.. biraz teknik bolumler olsa da konuya merakli herkesin zevkle okuyacagi bolumler... primordiyal corbadan ziyade baca ve menfezler benim cok ilgimi cekti mesela... yazar N Lane bir biyokimyaci oldugundan burayi muhtesem anlatmis.. sonraki seks, hareket, gorme, sicakkanlilik ve en onemlisi bilinc hakkinda daha aciklayici baska kitaplar var.. bunlari biraz daha yuzeyel gecmis sanirim.. ama yazar vurucu dusuncelerini ÖLÜM bolumunde sonda acikliyor... sanirim kitabin temeli ve basligin ... morenedeni burada gizli... bir kac alinti ile bitireyim:" bakteri ve soma birlesimiyiz biz" " mitokondrilerdeki kucuk degisiklikler saglik/yaslilik konusunda baslangic noktamiz olmali" ve "evrim kuramina gore YASLANMA KARSITI HAPLAR MIT DEGILDIR" daha ne olsun :)
review 2: I found this to be a mixed bag. I found some chapters such as Complex Cells and Hot Blood fascinating and others such as Movement and Consciousness quite tedious. The author does a good job of reducing complex biological processes into simpler terms but I felt he used weird analogies far too often to illustrate his point. When he started comparing muscle proteins into classical music I had to roll my eyes. In addition, a few more illustrations would be useful to show some concepts.It was nice to catch up on recent discoveries and see how much the science has progressed since I last studied biology which was in high school and first year university fifteen years ago. less

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