《The Beauty of the Beastly》是1996年Mariner Books出版的圖書，作者是Natalie Angier。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Beauty of the Beastly
- 作者：Natalie Angier
- 出版社：Mariner Books
- ISBN：9780395791479
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments. Perhaps most poignantly, she understands the complexities and the sad necessity of death. "The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art," she points out. Few writers have ever covered so many facets of biology so evocatively in one book. The Beauty of the Beastly tells us how the genius of the biological universe resides in its details and proves why, according to Timothy Ferris, author of the acclaimed Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Angier is "one of the strongest and wittiest science writers in the world today."
作者簡介
納塔莉・安吉爾：《紐約時報》科普專欄作家，她把創造性和無窮探索的精神與機智幽默的文學風格結合起來，對大自然和生命本質進行深刻考察和思索，對人類最新科學成就進行通俗而又妙趣橫生的綜述。其傑出成就使她獲得了新聞及科普文學的最高獎項――普利茲獎、劉易斯・托馬斯獎和美國科學進步協會獎。本書是其最為人所稱道的代表作，在美國暢銷不衰。
