Izlazi tek 22. Sep i ja sam svoju vec stavio u kosaricu.tranquil wrote:Da pomenem da ovih dana izlazi nova knjiga Richarda Dawkinsa, autora "Sebičnog gena", i izgleda da se nakon filozofskih temaponovo vratio evolucionoj biologiji - knjiga se zove "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution".
Kao "uvod", nedavno je ponovo realizirao i kratku dokumentarnu seriju pod nazivom "The Genius of Charles Darwin", ponovo za Channel 4 i vjerovatno u sličnom formatu kao njegovi dosadašnji TV radovi.
Evo sta kaze kritika (Amazon.com):Reviewed by Jonah Lehrer
Richard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naïvely assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an edifice of tested assumptions, and just as physicists must assume the truth of gravity before moving on to quantum mechanics, so do biologists depend on the reality of evolution. It's the theory that makes every other theory possible.Yet Dawkins also came to realize that a disturbingly large percentage of the American and British public didn't share his enthusiasm for evolution. In fact, they actively abhorred the idea, since it seemed to contradict the Bible and diminish the role of God. So Dawkins decided to write a book for these history-deniers, in which he would dispassionately demonstrate the truth of evolution beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt.After only a few pages of The Greatest Show on Earth, however, it becomes clear that Dawkins doesn't do dispassionate, and that he's not particularly interested in convincing believers to believe in evolution. He repeatedly compares creationists and Holocaust deniers, which is a peculiar way of reaching out to the other side. Elsewhere, Dawkins calls those who don't subscribe to evolution ignorant, fatuously ignorant and ridiculous. All of which raises the point: who, exactly, is supposed to read this book? Is Dawkins preaching to the choir or trying to convert the uninformed? While The Greatest Show on Earth might fail as a work of persuasive rhetoric—Dawkins is too angry and acerbic to convince his opponents—it succeeds as an encyclopedic summary of evolutionary biology. If Charles Darwin walked into a 21st-century bookstore and wanted to know how his theory had fared, this is the book he should pick up.Dawkins remains a superb translator of complex scientific concepts. It doesn't matter if he's spinning metaphors for the fossil record (like a spy camera in a murder trial) or deftly explaining the method by which scientists measure the genetic difference between distinct species: he has a way of making the drollest details feel like a revelation. Even if one already believes in the survival of the fittest, there is something thrilling about learning that the hoof of a horse is homologous to the fingernail of the human middle finger, or that some dinosaurs had a second brain of ganglion cells in their pelvis, which helped compensate for the klix brain in their head. As Darwin famously noted, There is grandeur in this view of life. What Dawkins demonstrates is that this view of life isn't just grand: it's also undeniably true.
Bu'mo videl'. Sudeci po Jonahu, izgleda da ne moze zaobic' kreacioniste pa makar se na glavu nasadio. Al' neka, i treba da ih proziva, mada bih ja vise volio kada bi prepucavanje s njima odvojio od struke pa ako mu je cejf da im se nagovori onda neka napise Iluziju o bogu, a kada ima kakvu ideju vezanu za struku onda da se zada pa da uradi nesto kao Sebicni gen. Bilo kako bilo, izgleda da ce knjiga ipak obilovati i strucnim informacijama, sto i jeste bit njegovih razmisljanja na temu jel'.
Uglavnom, jedva cekam.
I dan danas se vode dvojbe oko nekima suvise pojednostavljenog pogleda na pokretne masine za prijenos gena iz razloga zanemarivanja interaktivnih faktora na relaciji fenotip-genotip-habitat i ekstremnog bacanja tezista na same gene. Njegova hipoteza ima cvrstine mada sam misljenja da ju je ipak malo radikalizirao, namjerno zanemarujuci vec pomenute faktore iz jednostavnog razloga da bi ovu naucno-popularnu knjigu ucinio citanijom, tj. prodavanijom. Sve u svemu, i mene je ova njegova ideja bas fascinirala iz razloga sto ona u sustini i jeste realnost.
). Jednostavno, evolucija je svacija, niko je ne moze prisvojiti iskljucivo za svoja uvjerenja; svima nam koristi jer nam kazuje ko smo, šta smo, odakle smo...i samo to je bitno!
