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The Rational Optimist: a History of Human Economic Progress (Collector's Edition)
If you are a Chinese in the 21st century, you must understand the meaning of the word "pessimism" very well. I'm not talking about global warming and environmental pollution. No, no, we don't worry about such long-term things. What we worry about are immediate interests: whether we will drink poisonous milk powder, whether we will eat gutter oil, whether we will be unable to get off the high-speed train... Over the past 30 years, the face of China has undergone earth-shaking changes. Compared wi
128Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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Genome: Book of Life Chapter 23
The original English author of this book, Matt Ridley, is a doctor of zoology, a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, and a well-known popular science writer. In this book, he takes a unique approach, starting with the 23 pairs of chromosomes, to introduce the role genes play in the evolution of what makes humans human. In his view, we are machines with intelligent behavior made by genes, and evolution is a competition between genes. Understanding life from the geneti
88Reads9.3Score—Shelves