"Wang Liming's Lectures on Evolution" Author: Wang Liming Xinxing Publishing House Douban 2022 Annual Science New Knowledge Book

🔸Wenjin Book Award winner Wang Liming's new book

🔸A panoramic presentation of the 4 billion years of life evolution history, looking at the world again with the eyes of evolution

🔸Recommended by Liu Cixin, Liu Qing, and several academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

In 1859, the concept of biological evolution was formally formed in Darwin's masterpiece "The Origin of Species". Over the past 100 years, the theory of evolution itself as a scientific theory has been evolving, and the idea of ​​evolution has continued to "spill over" to every corner of human thought. Everyone is more or less familiar with several concepts related to the theory of evolution, and many people are accustomed to using these concepts to explain various phenomena in life. But it must be said that the theory of evolution may be one of the most misunderstood and misused scientific theories.

What is the correct knowledge and understanding of the theory of evolution? What are its cutting-edge developments? More importantly, as a non-biology major, why should readers also understand the theory of evolution?

The answer is in this handout. Author Wang Liming extracted a simple axiomatic system from complex life phenomena and used it to travel through 4 billion years of evolution, presenting the key elements and complete process of the origin, growth, adaptation to the environment, and formation of complex organizations of life.

You will understand the inspiration that the world of life gives to human survival through many surprises, deaths, and rebirths. You will also understand the uniqueness of this complex system through the "spillover" of evolution, that is, its profound impact on business, medicine, sociology and other fields, and master evolutionary thinking to guide your behavior and decision-making.

This book comprehensively demonstrates the theory of biological evolution and provides a rigorous and in-depth scientific explanation of this theory that has profoundly influenced human thought. At the same time, the author uses vivid and colorful brushstrokes to describe a large number of examples and scenes of life evolution, which is fascinating. This 4 billion years of life course is the ultimate legend, and its twists and turns, grandeur, and romance make any epic poem pale in comparison. While letting us understand the billions of years of evolution of life, this book also makes us look at ourselves in a new way, and let us know where all the things we experience and feel every day in life come from in essence.

—Liu Cixin, author of The Three-Body Problem

The ability to explain complex science in simple language while ensuring scientific rigor requires the author to rely not only on language skills, but also on extensive knowledge and scientific thinking.

——Zhou Zhonghe, paleontologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, chairman of the China Science Writers Association

With the help of recent cutting-edge academic research, the author brilliantly expounds on the evolutionary history of the theory of evolution itself, and then explores the complex relationship between natural evolution and cultural evolution, trying to establish a holistic theoretical framework for understanding the origin, adaptation and evolution of life, and finally reveals how rich the theory of evolution as a way of thinking is for human conscious creative activities. In a lecture with clear writing and a simple title, the author shows an amazing vision and ambition, far beyond the meaning of the usual "popular science book".

——Liu Qing, professor at East China Normal University

This is an ambitious but extremely humble book. The author wrote a lecture in the name of popular science, quietly making a comprehensive innovation on the theoretical system of evolution, clarifying the foundation and context of the entire discipline, and drawing a roadmap for this science. His ambition does not stop there. This book also attempts to break through the boundaries between evolution and social science, allowing us to see that the evolution of species in nature and the turmoil of people in human society reflect and inspire each other. After reading this book, I admire it and I am more convinced that in the future, the foundation of economics will no longer be Newtonian physics, but the time-honored theory of evolution.

——He Fan, Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and author of Variables

Wang Liming

PhD from California Institute of Technology, professor at Zhejiang University, winner of the “Outstanding Young Scholar Award” from the Qiushi Science and Technology Foundation.

He is the host of courses such as "50 Lectures on Life Sciences" and the chief writer of the "Mountain Patrol Report" column, and he tracks the latest developments in life sciences and modern medicine for the public on a long-term basis.

He has written popular science books such as "The Last Laugh", "What is Life", "God's Scalpel", and "The Biological Cultivation of a Foodie". His works have won many book awards such as the National Library Wenjin Book Award and the Wu Dayou Popular Science Book Gold Signature Award.