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奇普·沃爾特（Chip Walter），科普作傢、記者、電視製片人，曾任CNN主管。現為卡耐基梅隆大學梅隆學院常駐作傢。經常在《科學美國人》（Scientific American）和《經濟學人》（Economist）上發錶文章。著有《僅存的猿》（Last ape standing）等著作。現居賓夕法尼亞州匹茲堡。
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蔡承誌，科普圖書專職翻譯作傢。譯有《食物與廚藝》（三部）、《創作大事的不傳之秘》、《大腦比天空更遼闊》、《知識的365堂課》、《無限大的秘密》、《如何幫地球量體重》等。
The fascinating evolutionary links between six seemingly unremarkable traits that make us the very remarkable creatures we are. Countless behaviors separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, but all of them can be traced one way or another to six traits that are unique to the human race--our big toe, our opposable thumb, our oddly shaped pharynx, and our ability to laugh, kiss, and cry. At first glance these may not seem to be connected but they are. Each marks a fork in the evolutionary road where we went one way and the rest of the animal kingdom went another. Each opens small passageways on the peculiar geography of the human heart and mind. Walter weaves together fascinating insights from complexity theory, the latest brain scanning techniques, anthropology, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and robotics to explore how the smallest of changes over the past six million years - all shaped by the forces of evolution -- have enabled a primate once on the brink of extinction to evolve into a creature that would one day create all of the grand and exuberant edifices of human culture. As the story of each trait unfolds, Walter explains why our brains grew so large and complex, why we find one another sexually attractive, how toolmaking laid the mental groundwork for language, why we care about what others think, and how we became the creature that laughs and cries and falls in love. Thumbs, Toes and Tears is original, informative, and delightfully thought-provoking.
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【摘录】P67 当我们有了双手，特别是拥有拇指对掌的双手之后，我们的脑子还进一步发展出对世界更准确的实体感觉，因为这时我们不再对环境只能被动反应了。有了拇指，我们就得以依循意愿，以大自然前所未有的方式，来抓取、操作物件。因此人类演化史上两起撼天震地的事件就此串...
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評分这本书冗长的英文名《Thumbs,Toes,and Tears,and Other Traits that Make Us Human》更直接了当地说明了全书的内容：脚趾、拇指、咽、笑、眼泪、亲吻。从这些人类独有的特质，来说明为什么人和黑猩猩这些差异点就能够造成根本性的变化，大脚趾的结构确保了直立行走，拇指的灵...
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