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.
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.
http://headsalon.org/archives/1530.html 不知何故,对Jared Diamond那本雄心勃勃的《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》(Guns, Germs, and Steel)一直不抱多大期望,或许是我对畅销书有些偏见吧,但这次显然错了,读过前几章,已让我惊叹:这正是多年来我所期待的那种历史研究啊。 年轻...
評分 評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...
評分按语:第一,这篇读书笔记基本上包括了所有非此领域的外行需要知道的内容。第二,作者的观点和我个人的评论都混在一起,由于是一篇面向大众的读物,在此我不作标注。第三,豆瓣的书评好像不能加图,也不能在文字上加链接,有点影响阅读体验。 这本书想要回答的核心问题是借作者...
評分书是好书,但这本最大的问题是翻译质量太差了!!也就是获取个基本信息,完全体会不到文字的美。句子又臭又长,一看就是对着英语原句对照过来的,翻译质量太差了。怀疑就是某个老师找了几个学生一人一部分凑出来的。 --
殺雞路上有你。
评分引導全書所提的問題非常簡單,論述卻花瞭大量筆墨。當時讀的時候覺得很震驚,後來發現很多內容不過是將不同史料和數據進行聰明的鏈接。
评分作者自己一句話總結:“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.” 這種通過把社會科學提齣的高低問題洋洋灑灑地平攤給自然科學的手段,不失為anti-Racism一法。配閤同獲普利策的另一哈佛人Wilson的《Sociobiology: The New Synthesis》風味更佳。
评分聽聞已久一直想讀的書。在印度的時候去二手書店找這本書,隱約記得書名和槍炮細菌有關,於是問店員,有無一本書叫做“Guns, rose and bacteria”?店員竟然當即指正說,是“Guns Germs and Steel”並馬上告知具體位置,極為專業。
评分結構和邏輯簡潔明晰,讀這本書是種智力上的享受!
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