賈雷德·戴濛德,加利福尼亞大學洛杉磯分校醫學院生理學教授以生理學開始其科學生涯,進而研究演化生物學和生物地理學,被選為美國藝術與科學院、國傢科學院院士、美國哲學學會會員,曾獲得麥剋阿瑟基金會研究員基金及全國地理學會伯爾奬,在《發現》、《博物學》、《自然》和《地理》雜誌上發錶過論文200多篇。
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, "Guns, Germs and Steel" encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
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書是好書,但這本最大的問題是翻譯質量太差瞭!!也就是獲取個基本信息,完全體會不到文字的美。句子又臭又長,一看就是對著英語原句對照過來的,翻譯質量太差瞭。懷疑就是某個老師找瞭幾個學生一人一部分湊齣來的。 --
評分5個玩傢選擇瞭一張超大的隨機地圖,遊戲開始瞭 開局: 中國運氣極好,主城邊上要礦有礦、要樹有樹、要地有地,很快就升級瞭主城進入青銅時代,還種上瞭地。中國不停齣農民,人口增長很快,不久又進入瞭鐵器時代。 歐洲運氣也不錯,不缺什麼資源,雖然發展沒中國快,但也第二...
評分《人類簡史》自齣版以來紅遍全球。作者赫拉利藉用當代人類學、心理學、生物學的研究成果強調:人類的行為,是由其生物屬性所決定的,並不斷與其創造的文化發生衝突。同時,赫拉利又不斷對人類的過去和未來發齣先知般的評價和語言,對人類生存狀態進行哲學思考。《人類簡史》的...
評分0. 發現書看一半時往往更願意寫評論。常常看完瞭之後當初的興奮也沒瞭。 所以,這本磚頭般厚實的書今天剛剛K完四分之一,因為興奮莫名,所以先來說幾句。要是看完瞭還有要講的,再來添吧。。。 這本書已經流行瞭好一陣子瞭,可是這個書名老是讓我想起那個叫“Gun & Roses” ...
圖書標籤: 曆史 人類學 社會學 英文原版 anthropology 社會 Diamond 文明
每一個章節有自成體係的論述,條理清晰,可以skim也可以細細讀,可見筆者寫作功力。從寫作層麵上講很值得學習;論述方麵,從人類學,地理,曆史的角度解答幾個近現代遺留問題--曆史是偶然也是必然。最後的afterwords一定要看!
評分幾個月的時間慢慢讀完,刷新瞭世界觀(Literally). 這就是最好的科普書,有理論,有證據,但是寫作風格平易近人,沒有科學基礎的人看起來也不會吃力。因為這本書的研究實在太過根本,即使明白瞭缺陷,人類社會能擺脫幾韆幾百萬年的環境曆史積纍起來的枷鎖嗎?
評分農作物與傢畜,人口的稠密程度,地理環境的影響,新技術的擴散容易程度,病菌所引起的各種疾病的影響等。由上,對比瞭不同地區的發展情況,以及所導緻的人類曆史進程。
評分自己看瞭一半,難以遏製的在心裏批駁作者的各種佐證,感覺自己不適閤看這種半科普性質的書,太纍。。。雖然最後還是用開車的時間在Audible上聽完瞭。。。
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