Extreme Survival
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- General readers who enjoy marine life and popular natural science and seek reading pleasure
- Managers and entrepreneurs hoping to draw business inspiration from biological strategies
- Teachers and parents needing supplementary biology material for students
- Readers who prefer short chapters and reading in fragmented time
Not a good fit for
- Readers needing rigorous taxonomic textbooks or professional marine biology references
- Readers expecting systematic business methodology and directly applicable models
- Readers with no interest in animal description or evolution
Reading tips
- Read one creature per chapter, and after each chapter retell its survival strategy in three sentences.
- When you reach the business-insight sections, jot down one analogy you could transfer to your own work.
- When reading with children, look at the creature's story first, then discuss together why it survives.
- After finishing a creature, look up a related image or documentary clip to deepen the visual impression.
About the publisher
Zhejiang People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher known for its social science, history and foreign literature titles, covering philosophy, politics, law, economics, culture and history. Among the books in the library catalogue, its foreign literature list includes Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country and The Old Capital in well-known translations, as well as Wuthering Heights; its history list is represented by Dangnian Mingyue's Ming Dynasty series, and its politics list by Zhejiang New Discourse. Authors represented include Yasunari Kawabata, Ye Weiqu, Tang Yuemei, Dangnian Mingyue, Emily Brontë and René Wellek, with Wellek's Theory of Literature (newly revised edition) among its titles in literary theory. Beyond these areas, the press also publishes works on literary appreciation and social culture, giving it a profile that combines classic translations, popular history and academic works. As publicly available information is limited, other details are not covered here.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 前言 海洋史诗，一场极端生命的生存大战
- 01 早期之最：环境红利，多细胞生物如何战胜微生物
- 充满毒害的早期环境孕育的第一个生命
- 大氧化事件，让生命不得不找到新出路
- 古菌，生命史上最坚强的极端生物
- 寒武纪大爆发，微生物一跃成为多细胞物种
- 空桶理论：多样且荒诞的“暴走”生物
- 自然的历史：从开始并不能预测结束
- 竞争，让生命的多样性极速衰减
- 02 古老之最：亿万年的活化石，核心结构战胜演化竞赛
- 三叶虫时代，统治长达2亿年
- 珍珠鹦鹉螺，“封闭在潜水艇中”的捕食之王
- 鲎，存活至今的“外星生物”
- 由盛转衰，最后的三叶虫
- 腔棘鱼，恐龙时代的活化石
- 颌的出现，使鲨鱼逆袭至霸主之位
- 演化只会奖励短期成功
- 03 微小之最：细菌，一夜间改变海洋生物的大局
- 多胜繁星，地球仍是微生物的世界
- 小包装：生物不过是一个个肉质冰山
- 小而多：一亿亿亿个原绿球藻组成的氧气引擎
- 不挑食：只要大小合适，什么都能吃
- 微生物的食物链
- 只能被病毒基因杀死
- 杀死赢家，地球上赌注最高的竞赛
- 04 深水之最：要么是杀手，要么是拾荒者
- 深海热泉，深海里的“房东”
- 巨型管虫，细菌最显眼的获益者
- 落鲸的绿洲
- 食骨蠕虫，活在骨头上的僵尸生物
- 反其道而行之，解决深海的气压难题
- 潜水的古怪传统：深海泡沫塑料的乐趣
- 深海人造黄油
- 大王巨足虫，深海巨人
- 大王乌贼与大王酸浆鱿，庞大的头足动物
- 发光，生物的“魔法灯”
- 群星闪耀
- 05 浅水之最：腹背受敌，生存的关键来自平衡上下两方的危险
- 流线型海胆，活过脱水与竞争的赢家
- 住在离海最远的地方
- 合作共赢的生态系统
- 红树林，唯一在海水中存活的植物
- 弹涂鱼，离开水的鱼
- 中潮带，致命的中土
- 海岸上的怪物
- 贻贝海滩
- 海岸低处的生命地毯
- 海葵的“刺客”之歌
- 没有外壳的海蛞蝓，全靠毒素护身
- 生命在海洋边缘，生物压力与环境压力并存
- 06 长寿之最：占尽体型优势，甚至可以逆转新陈代谢
- 碳龄测试，探秘海洋生命的繁衍规律
- 弓头鲸，体型巨大的长寿红利
- 海龟，只要跨过幼年死亡的坎
- 黑珊瑚，将新陈代谢减缓至蠕动般的节奏
- 灯塔水母，不断返老还童
- 长者之村，离不开珊瑚礁和潟湖的成就
- 07 速度和旅程之最：快可逃生，远为觅食
- 鲱鱼，海中最快的游泳运动员
- 旗鱼，每小时130公里的“风帆”
- 飞快进食，绝不放过一闪而过的猎物
- 飞鱼，一次性逃生性质的短暂飞行
- 跳跃的海豚和带疙瘩的鳍，最经济的进化
- 飞行的鱿鱼，拥有最棒的喷射推进器
- 龙虾跳，甲壳动物的条件反射
- 枪虾，最快的反应速度
- 长跑高手：鲸鱼8 000公里的伟大迁徙
- 信天翁，滑翔多于飞翔
- 08 高温之最：基因、体型、新陈代谢速率，重塑自我的3个核心
- 每天都是水深火热
- 庞贝虫，海洋中体型最大的嗜热生物
- 中脊盲虾，没有眼睛却可以“看到”热浪
- 弃车保帅，珊瑚的高温之劫
- 预测珊瑚会遇到的麻烦
- 奥弗岛耐热珊瑚，从60种基因到250种
- 红海里的耐热共生藻
- 小头鼠海豚，从冰河物种跨越至热水生存专家
- 温度再升高一度，也是致命威胁
- 09 低温之最：两大利器，巨大体量与坚实的防御机制
- 独角鲸，生长在极寒之地的神秘独角巨兽
- 海獭存活的两大黄金标准
- 南极冰鱼，演化出抗冻蛋白
- 南极磷虾，众多南极食物链的基础
- 被错杀的小鳁鲸
- 来自冷水的能量
- 玻璃海绵，用骨架传递光线
- 海上通道，通往外来之路
- 10 古怪家庭之最：自然只关心繁殖结果，不关心繁殖工具
- 小丑鱼，尾巴一扭改变性别
- 鮟鱇鱼，每一只都是雌性
- 矶沙蚕，断身产卵
- 海洋爸爸们的育儿故事
- 孕育子女的海马爸爸
- 雀鲷，严格的军官爸爸
- 象海豹，只有排名前五才有资格做爸爸
- 北太平洋巨型章鱼，牺牲生命换取孩子未来的母亲
- 海鞘的裂土而治
- 幸福的家庭也没什么共同之处
- 结语 海洋生命的窘境
- 后记 让我们的未来与海洋生命共存
- 致谢
- 注释
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About the author
Stephen Palumbi is an author known mainly for popular science writing, though public information about his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background is limited, and his English name and personal history cannot currently be confirmed. Judging from the works held in the database, he has published three Chinese-language titles, including Extreme Survival, the four-volume Biology Thinking series, and a newly upgraded edition of Extreme Survival, all focusing on the life sciences and survival in extreme environments. His writing tends to begin with concrete cases and questions, translating biological concepts into narratives accessible to general readers and balancing knowledge with readability. His works fall under popular science and suit readers interested in nature, life, and scientific ways of thinking. Because background information on the author is scarce, understanding of his life and academic context awaits further material.
Anthony Palumbi is an author of popular science books. Publicly available information about him is limited: his nationality, dates of birth and death, education, and personal experience are not clearly documented, making it difficult to outline a complete biography. Judging from the works included in the catalog, his writing centers on biology and on life phenomena in extreme environments. His representative works include the Thinking in Biology series set (4 volumes), Extreme Survival, and the newly upgraded edition of Extreme Survival, three titles in total. These books are aimed at general readers and seek to translate basic biological concepts and ways of thinking into accessible content, while using cases of extreme survival to show how life adapts under harsh conditions. They combine informative content with readability, and offer an introductory reading path for those who wish to understand the living world from a biological perspective.
Wang Weiwei is an author whose work centers on popular science writing. The library currently holds three of his titles, including the four-volume Biological Thinking series, Extreme Survival, and a newly upgraded edition of the latter. Judging from the titles and their classification, his writing focuses on biology and on life phenomena in extreme environments, and he tends to organize content in serial, multi-volume formats, translating relatively specialized scientific knowledge into language accessible to general readers. The notion of "biological thinking" also suggests that he cares not merely about listing facts but about offering a way of observing and understanding the living world. Public information about Wang Weiwei himself—his nationality, dates of birth and death, education, and professional experience—is limited, so this introduction can only summarize his work rather than add biographical detail. For readers who wish to approach biology at the level of thinking, his books offer a fairly systematic entry point.
