作者简介格雷戈里·柯克伦(Gregory Cochran),犹大大学学者,主要研究物理学和人类学。
亨利·哈本丁(Henry Harpending),犹大大学学者,在人类学和人口遗传学方面有很高的建树,美国国家科学院成员。
A manifesto for and an example of a new kind of history, a biological history, and not just of the prehistoric era Scientists have long believed that the 'great leap forward' that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunning account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom and reveal that the human species has undergone a storm of genetic change much more recently. Human evolution in fact accelerated after civilisation arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. They argue that biology explains the expansion of the Indo-Europeans, the European conquest of the Americas, and European Jews' rise to intellectual prominence. In each of these cases, the key was recent genetic change: adult milk tolerance in the early Indo-Europeans that allowed for a new way of life, increased disease resistance among the Europeans settling America, and new versions of neurological genes among European Jews. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed. A provocative and fascinating look at human evolution, "The 10,000 Year Explosion" reveals the ongoing interplay between culture and biology in the making of the human race.
这本书是自带争议话题的,它无时无刻不在挑战传统的人类学理念,在当今占主导地位的是像贾雷德·戴蒙德这样认为环境主导人类历史的进程,人类的演化在过去很长的一段时间里面就趋于停滞了,这意味着人类在走出非洲后基于一样的条件,从根本上否定人种决定论,但很明显本书作者...
评分 评分 评分- 基因变革的原则: 1)基因变革是短视的,只是为了今天更好地适应环境,因而有可能成为明天环境变化后的阻碍。 2)鹰鸽博弈:基因中的鹰派和鸽派比例最终是对环境适应的结果。 - 采集-狩猎时代: 智人从尼安德特人那里“收购”的基因引发了人类革命性的变革。新的变种人拥有...
评分人类还在进化吗? 辉格 2013年2月19日 对于人类为何会是现在这个样子的问题,在达尔文之前,可以说的大概只有“上帝照他自己样子造了我们”之类,而从达尔文以来,我们已经能够从许多方面更有意思的谈论它了,为何我们的眼睛会有盲点?因为我们的眼睛和其他脊椎动物的一样,最...
如果平常对进化这一类的话题感兴趣的话,这里面大部分的东西并不会太过新鲜。
评分好到难以置信,哈哈
评分硬着头皮读完
评分读了20%,觉得上当受骗。不是说写得不好,而是推荐的人说是反驳钻石大叔的guns, germs, and steels,可人家那本是通俗读物,这本专业性太强了。
评分感觉这个书其实挺一般的, 没有带给我什么新东西... 感觉什么都没讲啊...很多地方完全可以更深入的
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美书屋 版权所有