Steve Jones (1) (1944–)
Autor/a de Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated
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Sobre l'autor
Steve Jones is the author of The Darwin Archipelago; Y: The Descent of Man; Darwin's Ghost; Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species; and The Serpents Promise. Jones is the winner of Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science. He lives in London.
Crèdit de la imatge: Welsh geneticist Steve Jones in April 2012. Red eyes effect removed. By Michal Maňas - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19180744
Obres de Steve Jones
Obres associades
Viatje d'un naturalista al rededor del mon, fet a bordo del barco "Lo Llebrer"(The Beagle) desde 1831 a 1836 (1839) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 3,070 exemplars
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Col·laborador — 1,023 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1944-03-24
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Camden, London, England, UK
Wirral, Cheshire, England, UK - Educació
- University of Edinburgh
- Professions
- geneticist
television presenter
Professor - Relacions
- Percy, Norma (wife)
- Organitzacions
- University College London
Daily Telegraph
British Humanist Association (Distinguished Supporter) - Premis i honors
- BBC Reith Lecturer (1991)
Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science (1997)
Membres
Ressenyes
Darwins't ghost : the origin of species updated de Steve Jones
Follows the framework of the origin, providing updated examples and analysis. Engaging and informative. Especially enjoyed the parts on evolution in bacteria and viruses and the biogeography explanations
This was read a few years ago, but my notes say that I had four books by this author - the first I gave up about a third in, the second (this one, about the Y chromosome) I struggled through to the end, the third I read some bits and skimmed others, and the fourth even more so.
I don't know how he manages to make an interesting subject boring and in places obscure, so I still don't really understand the difference between genes, chromosomes and how e.g. mitocondrial DNA can cause developmental problems when it is meant to be separate from the other DNA and is forms each cell's energy factory. So I will have to stay mystified until I can find someone who explains it a lot better than this author!… (més)
I don't know how he manages to make an interesting subject boring and in places obscure, so I still don't really understand the difference between genes, chromosomes and how e.g. mitocondrial DNA can cause developmental problems when it is meant to be separate from the other DNA and is forms each cell's energy factory. So I will have to stay mystified until I can find someone who explains it a lot better than this author!… (més)
It will probably take a third reading but I am determined to understand this stuff! Where are my ASC science major friends when I need them?
Great fun and full of surprising details. Pop science at its best; Jones has expertise, wide range and a sense of humour. Feels like he wrote it over his spare weekends rather than in the study or laboratory, riffing off on any theme that takes his fancy as he flips through pages of the bible. Lack of footnotes or bibliography is disappointing.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 13
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 2,629
- Popularitat
- #9,762
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 47
- ISBN
- 206
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 6