This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.
Jared Diamond is Professor of Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in physiology, he later took up the study of ecology and has made fundamental contributions to both disciplines. He is among the worlds leading zoologists and experts on birds. He has made many trips to the mountains of New Guinea to study their unique birds, rediscovered their long-lost bowerbird, and advises New Guinea governments on conservation. As well as writing technical articles in his many fields of interest, Jared Diamond writes regularly for popular science journals. He is married, and has twin sons.
不同种群人类进化,不是我干掉你全家,就是你团灭了我。如果有人要胜出的话,为啥不是你?这是一个问题。 强弱,不见得,150多号人,可以干掉8万乌合之众。俘虏了他们头领,而且讹诈的巨大的财富,最后食言杀害了头领。 不可思议,却是真实。然而传奇背后作者的逻辑分析,更是...
评分尽管anthropology在国外很多学院已有上百年历史,人类学在国内似乎还是一个很年轻的词语,相关的中文书籍也不是很多,Jared Diamond的这本普利策获奖作品不失为了解这一领域的一扇大门。 除了文字的记录,考古的发掘,其实还可以从许多角度审视历史,不同的方法,变幻的尺度,...
评分不同种群人类进化,不是我干掉你全家,就是你团灭了我。如果有人要胜出的话,为啥不是你?这是一个问题。 强弱,不见得,150多号人,可以干掉8万乌合之众。俘虏了他们头领,而且讹诈的巨大的财富,最后食言杀害了头领。 不可思议,却是真实。然而传奇背后作者的逻辑分析,更是...
评分《人类简史》自出版以来红遍全球。作者赫拉利借用当代人类学、心理学、生物学的研究成果强调:人类的行为,是由其生物属性所决定的,并不断与其创造的文化发生冲突。同时,赫拉利又不断对人类的过去和未来发出先知般的评价和语言,对人类生存状态进行哲学思考。《人类简史》的...
略有些翻来覆去讲一样的话的感觉,至少可以砍掉小半本。
评分作者自己一句话总结:“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.” 这种通过把社会科学提出的高低问题洋洋洒洒地平摊给自然科学的手段,不失为anti-Racism一法。配合同获普利策的另一哈佛人Wilson的《Sociobiology: The New Synthesis》风味更佳。
评分科学的方法 vs. 复杂的客观
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评分所以看这种外文学术小品一定要快,因为作者会把你当成三岁小孩儿来讲。。
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