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Alice May Roberts is an English anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, physical anthropologist, palaeopathologist, television presenter and author.
Roberts studied medicine and anatomy at Cardiff University, qualifying in 1997 as a physician with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BCh) degree, having gained an intercalated Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy. She earned a PhD in paleopathology in 2008 from the University of Bristol.
For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for survival. They were hunter-gatherers, consummate foraging experts, but taking the world as they found it. Then a revolution occurred – our ancestors’ interaction with other species changed. They began to tame them. The human population boomed; civilization began.
In her new book, Tamed, Alice Roberts uncovers the amazing deep history of ten familiar species with incredible wild pasts: dogs, apples and wheat; cattle; potatoes and chickens; rice, maize, and horses – and, finally, humans. Alice Roberts not only reveals how becoming part of our world changed these animals and plants, but shows how they became our allies, essential to the survival and success of our own species – and to our future.
Enlightening, wide-ranging and endlessly fascinating, Tamed is an epic story, encompassing hundreds of thousands of years of history and archaeology alongside cutting-edge genetics and anthropology. Yet it is also a deeply personal journey that will change how we see ourselves and the species on which we have left our mark.
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發表於2024-11-08
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《馴化》不是一部純學術的用以匯報近年來科研成果的人類史著作。作者用事實證據和統計的數字説話,但在寫作時虛實結閤,將十個物種漸進的“馴化”過程娓娓道來,內容唯實而不失趣味。 人類與其他物種密切相關,馴化是雙嚮影響的過程,而非想當然的人類主導或者全為有意識的活動...
評分 評分 評分本書簡評: 從價值導嚮的角度來看,中産階級左翼的曆史敘述的一個特點就是缺少社會分化的視角,往往陷入保守的社會學功能主義(哲學神正論)和膚淺的樂觀主義(進步主義),不過作為科普書也無傷大雅。 從科普書的角度來看,本書把科研過程寫得太多瞭,顯得副標題“十個物種造...
圖書標籤: 生物學 曆史 博物學 人類學 科普 環境史 世界史 LRB
很棒的科普讀物!
評分很棒的科普讀物!
評分人的馴化史和被馴化史。人類馴養榖物的能量和蛋白為人類提供瞭人口爆炸的養料,被遊牧民馴化的羊、山羊和牛提供瞭存儲蛋白質和能量的重要方式,人類憑藉與動物和植物的結盟,避免瞭急劇氣候變化可能帶來的災難性後果。在有瞭更安全的能量和蛋白質來源後,人類定居下來,傢庭變得越來越龐大。沒有狗幫助我們狩獵,也許人的祖先會在2萬年前的那最近一次冰河極盛期遭受重創。雞的馴化大概在青銅時代,它很快成為瞭人類最重要的傢禽。馴養的馬匹帶來瞭深遠的經濟影響,極大地擴展瞭人的活動範圍。馬還能用來牽引,人們開始騎馬作戰時,戰爭發生瞭決定性的變化,騎兵一直存在,直到第一次世界大戰,沒有馬全球的戰爭史都要重寫。牛的作用也很大,因為它在農業和交通運輸方麵也有很大作用。人類馴化瞭這些物質,這些物質也改變瞭人類,讓人成為瞭今天的人。
評分很棒的科普讀物!
評分人的馴化史和被馴化史。人類馴養榖物的能量和蛋白為人類提供瞭人口爆炸的養料,被遊牧民馴化的羊、山羊和牛提供瞭存儲蛋白質和能量的重要方式,人類憑藉與動物和植物的結盟,避免瞭急劇氣候變化可能帶來的災難性後果。在有瞭更安全的能量和蛋白質來源後,人類定居下來,傢庭變得越來越龐大。沒有狗幫助我們狩獵,也許人的祖先會在2萬年前的那最近一次冰河極盛期遭受重創。雞的馴化大概在青銅時代,它很快成為瞭人類最重要的傢禽。馴養的馬匹帶來瞭深遠的經濟影響,極大地擴展瞭人的活動範圍。馬還能用來牽引,人們開始騎馬作戰時,戰爭發生瞭決定性的變化,騎兵一直存在,直到第一次世界大戰,沒有馬全球的戰爭史都要重寫。牛的作用也很大,因為它在農業和交通運輸方麵也有很大作用。人類馴化瞭這些物質,這些物質也改變瞭人類,讓人成為瞭今天的人。
Tamed 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載