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A Troublesome Inheritance

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Nicholas Wade
Penguin Press
2014-5-6
288
USD 27.95
Hardcover
9781594204463

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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story

Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory.

Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years—to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well.

Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits—thrift, docility, nonviolence—have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews.

Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation.

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著者简介

Nicholas Wade received a BA in natural sciences from King’s College, Cambridge. He was the deputy editor of Nature magazine in London and then became that journal’s Washington correspondent. He joined Science magazine in Washington as a reporter and later moved to The New York Times, where he has been an editorial writer, concentrating on issues of defense, space, science, medicine, technology, genetics, molecular biology, the environment, and public policy, a science reporter, and a science editor.


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把人类行为或者社会行为看成是文化影响下的基因内源的表现从科学上来看也是站不住脚的

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亚马逊买的纸版书,2016.10.15-10.23,读完,整体来讲不错。 书结构:共十章 第二章:种族主义的概念,以及影响其诞生的因素(科学的“诱导”作用) 第三章:人类社会行为的起源 第四章+第五章:基于真凭实据的种族遗传学 第六章-第十章:猜想:人类进化,历史,经济等互相交...  

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这本描述了基因和种族在人类进化和历史里的作用,同意作者的部分观点,例如人类的种族之分,种族在人类历史里逐渐形成,并在不断适应环境中发展出了自己的历史和特征。 后面部分作者提出了理论即人类社会行为也会通过基因进行代代遗传并不断适应环境而发展。整体读下来,这一理...  

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这本描述了基因和种族在人类进化和历史里的作用,同意作者的部分观点,例如人类的种族之分,种族在人类历史里逐渐形成,并在不断适应环境中发展出了自己的历史和特征。 后面部分作者提出了理论即人类社会行为也会通过基因进行代代遗传并不断适应环境而发展。整体读下来,这一理...  

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亚马逊买的纸版书,2016.10.15-10.23,读完,整体来讲不错。 书结构:共十章 第二章:种族主义的概念,以及影响其诞生的因素(科学的“诱导”作用) 第三章:人类社会行为的起源 第四章+第五章:基于真凭实据的种族遗传学 第六章-第十章:猜想:人类进化,历史,经济等互相交...  

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基因大规模更替的三种情况:气候变化、技术和组织革命、战争,其中最重要的是组织革命,即体制的力量。长期的体制固化才会导致基因的大规模定向选择。 气候变化方面:北方民族由于自然条件恶劣,受到的进化压力更大,因此积累了更多的优势 组织革命:体制会逐步改变基因的选...  

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