Stephen Jay Gould 写的《Wonderful Life》（奇妙的生命）。可能书中只有短短几段，但他解释了“适者生存”其实并不完全是演化的真正运作方式。“适者生存”暗示了物种…
"Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould. It might have only been a few paragraphs, but he explained that "Survival of the fittest" is not really quite how evolution works. "Survival of the fittest" implies that species…
Stephen Jay Gould 的《Wonderful Life》（奇妙的生命）是一本很赞的书，讲的是来自同一历史时期的许多奇异生物。这些宛如外星生物般的物种竟然就这样游荡着度过了数百万、数千万年的漫长岁月…
Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould is a lovely book about many strange organisms from this same time period. It's wild that these alien creatures were just wandering around living out their lives for millions and millions…
古生物学家 Stephen Jay Gould 写过一本叫《Wonderful Life》（奇妙的生命）的书，讲的是寒武纪大爆发——也就是多细胞生命真正开始爆发式发展的时期。基本上在那个时候，生态舞台是一片空白，极短时间内就演化出了极其丰富多样的生物。所有的…
The paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book called 'Wonderful Life' about the Cambrian Explosion, when mutlicellular life really got cranking. Basically at that time the ecological slate was clean, and an enormous diversity of organisms developed very quickly. All the…
我还推荐 Jonathan Losos 写的新书《Improbable Destinies》，里面大量讨论了趋同演化以及“重放录像带”的作用——它频繁指涉了 Gould 的那本《Wonderful Life》，探讨了新的基因组测序技术正在揭示什么，以及这与他当年说对的、说错的、或者他被外界误解的地方有何关联。
I also recommend the new book Improbable Destinies by Jonathan Losos, which has a big discussion on convergent evolution and the role of "replaying the tape" - it refers back a lot to Gould's book "Wonderful Life" and what new genome sequencing is revealing and how it relates to what he got right and/or got wrong and/or how he was misunderstood.
Stephen Jay Gould 写的《Wonderful Life》（奇妙的生命）。可能书中只有短短几段，但他解释了“适者生存”其实并不完全是演化的真正运作方式。“适者生存”暗示了物种…
"Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould. It might have only been a few paragraphs, but he explained that "Survival of the fittest" is not really quite how evolution works. "Survival of the fittest" implies that species…
Stephen Jay Gould 的《Wonderful Life》（奇妙的生命）是一本很赞的书，讲的是来自同一历史时期的许多奇异生物。这些宛如外星生物般的物种竟然就这样游荡着度过了数百万、数千万年的漫长岁月…
Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould is a lovely book about many strange organisms from this same time period. It's wild that these alien creatures were just wandering around living out their lives for millions and millions…
如果有人对“时光倒流、重演生命演化”这类论点感兴趣，我强烈推荐 Stephen Jay Gould 的《Wonderful Life》（奇妙的生命）。
If anyone is interested in arguments about winding back the clock and replaying evolution, I highly recommended Stephen Jay Gould's "Wonderful Life."
古生物学家 Stephen Jay Gould 写过一本叫《Wonderful Life》（奇妙的生命）的书，讲的是寒武纪大爆发——也就是多细胞生命真正开始爆发式发展的时期。基本上在那个时候，生态舞台是一片空白，极短时间内就演化出了极其丰富多样的生物。所有的…
The paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a book called 'Wonderful Life' about the Cambrian Explosion, when mutlicellular life really got cranking. Basically at that time the ecological slate was clean, and an enormous diversity of organisms developed very quickly. All the…
至于寒武纪大爆发，虽然现在看来多少有点过时了，但还是推荐 Gould 的《Wonderful Life》https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Life_(book)
And for the Cambrian Explosion, although somehow dated now, Gould's Wonderful Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Life_(book)
我还推荐 Jonathan Losos 写的新书《Improbable Destinies》，里面大量讨论了趋同演化以及“重放录像带”的作用——它频繁指涉了 Gould 的那本《Wonderful Life》，探讨了新的基因组测序技术正在揭示什么，以及这与他当年说对的、说错的、或者他被外界误解的地方有何关联。
I also recommend the new book Improbable Destinies by Jonathan Losos, which has a big discussion on convergent evolution and the role of "replaying the tape" - it refers back a lot to Gould's book "Wonderful Life" and what new genome sequencing is revealing and how it relates to what he got right and/or got wrong and/or how he was misunderstood.