Life's journey

Author: Jia Lanpo Zhang Shuzheng
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Publishing Date: 2000-01-01
Features: The Journey of Life is published by Guangxi Normal University Press. The journey of life has reached the biological stage after 3.5 billion years. Opening the thick "annals" of fossils, life in different geological periods will. When life lets go of its hands from the body and finally stands upright on the earth with its feet, true creation begins. The world-famous "Dolly" has excited humanity while also causing concern. In the contemplation and exploration of the origin of life, humanity has had many ideas, but one thing is certain: life is a result of natural evolution. To popularize scientific knowledge and scientific thinking about life, and to enable the entire nation to move forward with rationality and lightness into the future, the authors organized and compiled this The Journey of Life, systematically, vividly, and in an easy-to-understand manner introducing scientific knowledge about life to readers. The book is divided into four parts: Part "Which Came First: the Chicken or the Egg," introduces the process of the origin of life from the perspective of chemical origins; Part "Searching for Dinosaur Companions," introduces the development of life on Earth from the perspective of paleontology; Part "Where Did Grandpa's Grandpa Come From," introduces the general overview of the discipline of human origins by taking the discovery of the Beijing Man fossils as a specific case; Part "Letting Life Radiate Wonder," introduces the development of biotechnology from the perspective of biological engineering and describes the future landscape of life sciences. The authors of this book are strong in their expertise, the knowledge system is comprehensive, and the systematic knowledge is presented in vivid and concrete examples, making it highly readable.