Comments 0 Add to Bookmarks chinese Chinese English French German Spanish Facebook Twitter Whatsapp 人类进化:生存不易 Oct 3, 2011 Ariel Fernandez 麦迪逊——毫无疑问,人类是复杂的,你我也为之自豪。我们相信,我们在生物学上高出其他物种一等。我们的生物功能被精巧地控制着,并能能够适应外部变化,这是因为我们有着复杂的互动网络。与其他物种不同,我们天生具有毅力和智力,因此我们能够改变环境,以此缓冲健康恶化带来的影响。但是,或许正因为我们的复杂性的产生方式,我们注定要成为人类这个物种。套用科普作家鲍尔(Phillip Ball)的说法,大自然激活了一颗定时炸弹,而我们的复杂性只能短暂地延缓让计时器停摆。为了抓住这一问题的本质,我们需要在分子水平上考察一下人类的构成,把我们与那些我们称之为“原始”的物种(比如单细胞生物)做个比较。该分析让我们考察大量不同物种体内的蛋白质,即组成我们的分子基石和生物功能的执行者。拥有同一祖先的不同物种的蛋白质,即所谓的“同源体”,为我们提供了很好的比较基准。 To continue reading, please log in or enter your email address. Registration is quick and easy and requires only your email address. If you already have an account with us, please log in. Or subscribe now for unlimited access. Email required Receive our Sunday newsletter Log in Featured What’s Been Stopping the Left? Apr 10, 2018 Dani Rodrik Political Machismo Apr 10, 2018 Ian Buruma Will China Really Supplant US Economic Hegemony? Apr 2, 2018 Kenneth Rogoff Should Tech Companies Be More Tightly Regulated? Mar 30, 2018 Simon Johnson Liberal World Order, R.I.P. Mar 21, 2018 Richard N. Haass LinkedIn Google+ Bookmark Email Print 0 Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Show More Show More Contact Us http://prosyn.org/fYM5VZd/zh;
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麦迪逊——毫无疑问,人类是复杂的,你我也为之自豪。我们相信,我们在生物学上高出其他物种一等。我们的生物功能被精巧地控制着,并能能够适应外部变化,这是因为我们有着复杂的互动网络。与其他物种不同,我们天生具有毅力和智力,因此我们能够改变环境,以此缓冲健康恶化带来的影响。
但是,或许正因为我们的复杂性的产生方式,我们注定要成为人类这个物种。套用科普作家鲍尔(Phillip Ball)的说法,大自然激活了一颗定时炸弹,而我们的复杂性只能短暂地延缓让计时器停摆。
为了抓住这一问题的本质,我们需要在分子水平上考察一下人类的构成,把我们与那些我们称之为“原始”的物种(比如单细胞生物)做个比较。该分析让我们考察大量不同物种体内的蛋白质,即组成我们的分子基石和生物功能的执行者。拥有同一祖先的不同物种的蛋白质,即所谓的“同源体”,为我们提供了很好的比较基准。
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