郑也夫的《阅读生物学札记》是本有意思的书。与其说是在读生物学,不如说更多地是在借生物学来思考人类文化。纵观一个多世纪以来的科学史,我们不难看到,物理学和生物学是分别对二十世纪和二十一世纪人们的思想产生重大影响的两门科学。它们的这种巨大影响当然是因为“这两个学 Zheng Yefu’s “reading biology notes” is an interesting book. Instead of reading biology, it is better to think about human culture through biology. Looking at the history of science for more than a century, it is not hard for us to see that physics and biology are the two sciences that have a significant impact on people’s thinking in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, respectively. Of course, their great influence is because of these two schools of learning