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Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by The Rockefeller University. His previous books include Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and Guns, Germs, and Steel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
- 社会学
- 历史
- 人类学
- JaredDiamond
- 自然科学
- 贾雷德·戴蒙德
- 社科
- 英文
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. A characteristically provocative, enlightening, and entertaining book, The World Until Yesterday will be essential and delightful reading.
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读过《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》的人，对贾雷德•戴蒙德不会感到陌生，他是一位演化生物学家，写作横跨历史学、人类学、地理学等学科，试图为历史变迁建立一套演化论的解释范式。 本书延续了戴蒙德的野心，通过对原始“捕猎—采集文明”的观察与研究，作者理清了现代文明的来路，...
评分在传统时代，人们常常认为，在远古曾有一个伊甸园般的完美社会；而到了近现代，越来越多的人开始相信，真正的完美社会将在未来出现。当然，也曾有一些人认为，乌托邦在这个时代就有，但却是在远方的某个异邦或海岛上。总之，它不会是此时此地的社会——毕竟，在我们眼皮底下的...
评分分散投资已经成为现代投资的一个基本理念，但并不是每个人都愿意相信它。与很多会顾虑风险的人不同，一些激进派则相信分散投资发不了大财，在他们看来，“把鸡蛋放在不同的篮子里”都是老年人胆怯者的做派，不登大雅之堂。 靠分散投资一夜暴富那是不可能的事情，但...
评分1. 前三分之一（1-4章）比较像废话，没什么内容。 2. 最有启发的是五六章。狩猎采集部落对下一代平等相待（北美印第安昆族孩子心情不好可以扇父母耳光）与放任其探索的程度（三岁小孩玩刀，切着手就切着）令现代人惊讶（作者是美国人都惊讶，别说某些国家了）。 3. 原始人对老...
评分Diamond的所有科普著作都共享同一个母题，向过去的人类学习。而在这部书里，“What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?”直接成为了副标题，因此内容也紧扣“学习”而展开。书中，作者通过他人的研究成果和自己在新几内亚传统社会的经历，对比传统社会和当代社会在处理...
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评分like most of the book, especially the religion chapter
评分推荐，钻石大叔的书一向有营养，不过也一如既往地罗嗦，所以要有耐心才能读完
评分又一本超有趣的原始部落历险记，作者也是有着九条命的
评分作者用一贯丰富田野调查经验打开了原始社会的大门。
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