Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.
Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species’ genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.
Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species’ immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Joseph Henrich is professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution at the University of British Columbia, where he is a professor in the departments of psychology and economics. He is the coauthor of Why Humans Cooperate and the coeditor of Experimenting with Social Norms.
本书作者亨里奇在书中所倡导的理论叫做:文化-遗传协同演化,或者叫做双重遗传理论(Dual inheritance theory,简称DIT),即基因与文化的共同演化作用,造就了我们“人类成功统治地球”。 要评价这样的理论,我们首先得从社会科学与演化生物学两方面着手,看看他们在各自的理...
评分本书作者亨里奇在书中所倡导的理论叫做:文化-遗传协同演化,或者叫做双重遗传理论(Dual inheritance theory,简称DIT),即基因与文化的共同演化作用,造就了我们“人类成功统治地球”。 要评价这样的理论,我们首先得从社会科学与演化生物学两方面着手,看看他们在各自的理...
评分本书作者亨里奇在书中所倡导的理论叫做:文化-遗传协同演化,或者叫做双重遗传理论(Dual inheritance theory,简称DIT),即基因与文化的共同演化作用,造就了我们“人类成功统治地球”。 要评价这样的理论,我们首先得从社会科学与演化生物学两方面着手,看看他们在各自的理...
评分本书作者亨里奇在书中所倡导的理论叫做:文化-遗传协同演化,或者叫做双重遗传理论(Dual inheritance theory,简称DIT),即基因与文化的共同演化作用,造就了我们“人类成功统治地球”。 要评价这样的理论,我们首先得从社会科学与演化生物学两方面着手,看看他们在各自的理...
评分理论有启发。但举的例子总觉得似乎有点牵强,比如什么“神秘的部落占卜仪式是为了随机化狩猎地区进化出来的”,这种大胆功能主义解释不是特别敢信。
评分读了一半弃了。不知道是关于进化论的原版书难读还是这本书本身很难。很多内容是越写越偏,还融入了很多关于其他人种的故事。看看未来有没有机会再重新回顾吧
评分保持良好的生活习惯,然后慢一点。
评分迄今为止对gene-culture co-evolution最全面的总结,但牵强附会之处不少。
评分读了一半弃了。不知道是关于进化论的原版书难读还是这本书本身很难。很多内容是越写越偏,还融入了很多关于其他人种的故事。看看未来有没有机会再重新回顾吧
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