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.
所以,我们真的不是电影、书本或博物馆中最常见的原始人形象尼安德特人的后代,北京人也真的不是北京猿人的后代,世界各大洲、各个地方的人们都来自一个共同的祖先,他是生活在6万年前非洲的某个男人。我们来自非洲! 10年前的老书了,开卷之前颇有犹豫。因为之前看过相关的书...
评分自打人类对我们从哪里来产生困惑后,哲学家、艺术家、历史学家、科学家都力图给出解释。聚焦于个体,父辈们倘能找到家谱,至多追溯到信史以降。再往前呢?达尔文说,人类起源于非洲。在非洲或非洲以外发现的早期人类遗址,也不断支持或推翻这种说法,它们可以被证明“很早”,...
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...
评分作者没有明确的描述出人种分离前的我们的大致外貌,既然他肯定的说那是一种不同于今天任何人种的相貌。 关于吐火罗语倒是可以用基因中亚说解释,但是这又明显和语言学不符。 关于晚期智人大多程度上牺牲了当地“土著”而生存繁衍下来的描述还是不够(也许根本也没法弄清楚)。
评分這本書讀到最後時,飛機正在蘇黎世上空降落。窗外群山間散落著村莊,高峽的湖水粼粼泛光,阿爾卑斯山雄立在天盡頭,夕陽撒在白雪峰上發出金色的光。 我用上帝視角俯視這一切,想像1萬年前遠處的雪山曾是不可跨越的天塹,人類的祖先在每一座山間駐扎,一代代艱苦的繁衍推進生存...
有电影版.
评分有电影版.
评分豆瓣以前有个叫《出非洲记》的中译本咋没了
评分有电影版.
评分有电影版.
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