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Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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進化は生命にとって最も重要なプロセスの一つです。それは地球上の生命の歴史を説明するだけでなく、私たちが何者で、どのようにしてここにいるのかといった疑問や、私たちが取る行動にまで及び、医学や保全生物学における現代の進歩に大きな影響を与えています。進化論の科学に対する最も重要な主張は、多くの生命科学を一つの統一的な全体像に統合する包括的な枠組みを提供する力でしょう。しかし、進化論、特に進化生物学は、これまで多くの人々から疑いの目を向けられてきました。進化がどのように、なぜ機能し、私たちに何を教えてくれるのかを理解することは、一般の科学に対する認識を高める上で最も重要なことだと考えられます。
本書では、進化論の基本的な理論を概観し、それが生命科学、社会科学、さらには人文科学の分野にまで広く波及していることを紹介します。そのプロセスの説明には、植物、動物、そして人間から引き出された例を用いています。科学の多くは、目に見えないミクロの世界を扱っているために、どうしても理解するのが難しいところがあります。これに対し、進化科学は、私たちが生活し、活動するマクロの世界を扱っているので、素人にも理解しやすく、楽しむことができるという利点があります。進化論の核となる理論そのものと、19世紀を象徴する論争、そしてウイルスやスーパー耐性菌、人間の進化や行動まで、幅広いアプローチで私たちの住む世界のさまざまな側面への影響を取り上げます。
   

  • Explores the essential background to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection
  • Examines 100 years of history surrounding the case for evolution
  • Provides a comprehensive explanation for evolution, breaking everything down from the evolution of species to the evolution of languages

  
Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and greatly impacts modern advancements in medicine and conservation biology. Perhaps its most important claim for science is its ability to provide an overarching framework that integrates the many life sciences into a single unified whole. Yet, evolution-evolutionary biology in particular-has been, and continues to be, regarded with suspicion by many. Understanding how and why evolution works, and what it can tell us, is perhaps the single most important contribution to the public perception of science.
     
This book provides an overview of the basic theory and showcases how widely its consequences reverberate across the life sciences, the social sciences and even the humanities. In this book, Robin Dunbar uses examples drawn from plant life, animals and humans to illustrate these processes. Evolutionary science has important advantages. Most of science deals with the microscopic world that we cannot see and invariably have difficulty understanding, but evolution deals with the macro-world in which we live and move. That invariably makes it much easier for the lay audience to appreciate, understand and enjoy. Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know® takes a broad approach to evolution, dealing both with the core theory itself and its impact on different aspects of the world we live in, from the iconic debates of the nineteenth century, to viruses and superbugs, to human evolution and behavior.

目次: 

Chapter 1: Evolution by Natural Selection
Chapter 2: Adaptation and Speciation
Chapter 3: Genetics and the Mechanisms of Transmission
Chapter 4: Viruses, Slime Moulds, and the Origins of Life and Sex
Chapter 5: Individuals and Species
Chapter 6: Human Evolution
Chapter 7: Evolution and Human Behavior
Chapter 8: Cultural Evolution

著者について: 

Robin Dunbar gained his MA from the University of Oxford and PhD from Bristol University. He is currently Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, and an emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College. He has held Research Fellowships and Professorial Chairs in Psychology, Biology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Stockholm University, University College London, and the University of Liverpool. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, and was co-Director of the British Academy's Centenary Research Project. His principal research interests focus on the evolution of sociality in mammals (with particular reference to ungulates, primates and humans). He is best known for the social brain hypothesis, the gossip theory of language evolution and Dunbar's Number (the limit on the number of relationships that we can manage). His current project focuses on the mechanisms of social cohesion, and uses a range of approaches from comparative analysis to cognitive experiments to neuroimaging to explore the mechanisms that allow humans to create large scale communities.

"This is an enjoyable, well-written book packed with interesting facts and theories about evolutionary processes and history." -- Richard A. Richards, The Quarterly Review of Biology

商品情報

ISBN : 9780190922887

著者: 
Robin Dunbar
ページ
160 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
140 x 210 mm
刊行日
2020年01月
シリーズ
What Everyone Needs to Know
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Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know®