Wang Liming's Lecture Notes on Evolution

🔸Wenjin Book Award winner Wang Liming's blockbuster new book

🔸Panoramic presentation of 4 billion years of life evolution history, revisiting the world with the eyes of evolution

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

In 1859, the concept of biological evolution was formally formed in Darwin's masterpiece "On the Origin of Species". Over the past 100 years, the theory of evolution itself has been evolving as a scientific theory, and the ideas of the theory of evolution have also 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 has to be said that the theory of evolution may be one of the most misunderstood and misused scientific theories.

What is the correct understanding of the theory of evolution? What are its cutting-edge developments? More importantly, as a non-biology reader, why do you want to know about evolution?

The answers are in this handout. The author Wang Liming extracted a set of concise axioms from complex life phenomena, and used it to go through the evolutionary process of 4 billion years, presenting the key elements and complete process of life origin, growth, adaptation to the environment and formation of complex organizations.

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

This book presents the theory of biological evolution in an all-round way, and provides a rigorous and in-depth scientific exposition of this theory that has profoundly influenced human thought. At the same time, the author describes a large number of examples and scenes of life evolution with vivid and brilliant brushwork, which is fascinating. This 4 billion-year life course is the ultimate legend. Its twists and turns, magnificence, magnificence and romance make any epic pale in comparison. While this book allows us to understand the evolution of life over hundreds of millions of years, it also allows us to re-examine ourselves, and let us know where all the experiences and feelings we experience and feel every day in life originate from.

——Liu Cixin, author of The Three-Body Problem

To be able to explain complex science clearly in popular language and ensure the rigor of science, the author relies not only on language skills, but profound knowledge and scientific thinking should be indispensable.

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

With the help of recent cutting-edge academic research, the author elaborates 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 comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the origin, adaptation, and evolution of life, and finally reveals it as a way of thinking. How much enlightenment does the theory of evolution have on the conscious creative activities of human beings. In a lucidly written lecture note with an unassuming title, the author displays an astonishing vision and ambition that goes far beyond what is usually meant by "popular science."

——Liu Qing, Professor of East China Normal University

This is an ambitious but remarkably humble book. The author wrote a handout in the name of popular science, quietly and comprehensively innovated the theoretical system of evolution, clarified the foundation and context of the entire subject, and described the roadmap of this science. His ambition doesn't stop there. This book also tries to break through the boundary between evolutionary theory and social science, allowing us to see that the evolution of species in nature and the turmoil in human society reflect and inspire each other. After reading this book, apart from my admiration, I firmly believe that in the future, the basis of economics will no longer be Newtonian physics, but the timeless theory of evolution.

——He Fan, professor of economics at Shanghai Jiaotong University, author of "Variables"