斯宾塞·韦尔斯,美国遗传学家,现年34岁。哈佛大学博士、斯坦福大学博士后。曾在世界基因多样性研究计划主要发起人、人类学研究领域泰斗路卡·卡瓦利-斯福扎门下工作。后来他进入英国牛津大学的人类跗学研究中心。作为一名出色的科学家兼作家、电影制片人、斯宾塞·韦尔斯以多种形式生动地展现了“人类的旅程”。
Around 60,000 years ago, a man - identical to us in all important respects - lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Showing how the secrets about our ancestors are hidden in our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in the cutting-edge science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. We now know not only where our ancestors lived but who they fought, loved, and influenced. Informed by this new science, "The Journey of Man" is replete with astonishing information. Wells tells us that we can trace our origins back to a single Adam and Eve, but that Eve came first by some 80,000 years. We hear how the male Y-chromosome has been used to trace the spread of humanity from Africa into Eurasia, why differing racial types emerged when mountain ranges split population groups, and that the San Bushmen of the Kalahari have some of the oldest genetic markers in the world. We learn, finally with absolute certainty, that Neanderthals are not our ancestors and that the entire genetic diversity of Native Americans can be accounted for by just ten individuals. It is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind - as well as an accessible look at the analysis of human genetics that is giving us definitive answers to questions we have asked for centuries, questions now more compelling than ever.
2007.05.15增加一flash演示: http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ 原贴:http://www.cqcn.com/blog/archives/20050929_the_journey_of_man.html “出非洲记”——本月初看的一本书,一直想写写,不过现在才写,而且只准备简单写写,我还真是懒呀。 根据对...
评分------读《人类前史》(斯宾赛•韦尔斯/著) 1.遗传决定了你的命运 这是一本有关遗传学,或者称分子生物学的著作。以人的基因的发展变化,来推测人类的祖先出生在哪里?然后,是如何播撒到世界各地的? 小时候,父母带我到亲戚、朋友家,大凡头一回见到我的大人会微笑着问...
评分一口气看完了这本书。 其实我已经看过那个发现频道的节目,总的来说,文章的主题基本上就是那个写序所说的概括了。 作者是个科学家,所以写的比较罗嗦,而且翻译一般,跟教科书一样,不是非常生动,尤其是后部,几乎是跳着读的。 不过他的结论还是很有启示的,不过这要读者...
评分------读《人类前史》(斯宾赛•韦尔斯/著) 1.遗传决定了你的命运 这是一本有关遗传学,或者称分子生物学的著作。以人的基因的发展变化,来推测人类的祖先出生在哪里?然后,是如何播撒到世界各地的? 小时候,父母带我到亲戚、朋友家,大凡头一回见到我的大人会微笑着问...
评分在现代人类单一地区起源说已经基本成为定论的情况下,在某朝的各类历史教科书和博物馆陈列展览中,多地区连续进化说仍然是主流,吴新智院士的东亚人类“连续进化、附带杂交”的理论还获得过国家科技进步二等奖。 这是因为在这片神奇的土地,这个问题自建政以来,就是...
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评分豆瓣以前有个叫《出非洲记》的中译本咋没了
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