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”。
发表于2024-12-24
The Journey of Man 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
刚拿到书,略翻了一下,感觉不大好。 第一,作者并不是讲故事的高手。对我来说,条理不是很清楚,有些乱。 第二,翻译得不大好。译者明显很喜欢装逼,书名竟然套用“出埃及记”而英文书名里没有一个类似Exodus的词,只有一个odyssey,还不如翻成基因的奥德赛来得直白!最让人不...
评分1,线粒体是20亿年前被人类细胞吞噬的细菌,但是现在成了人类细胞的重要动力源。 3,中国的南方人和北方人具有基因上的差异。是北方迁移者和南方迁移者的后代。南方人可能先到一步。 4,一些名词在各种语言中发音相似比如mama,papa,其实背后的原因是他们有共同的祖先。 5,世...
评分本人生物专业,因此对“非洲起源说”“线粒体夏娃”之类也算颇有耳闻。不过其中的具体情况,依然知之甚少。斯宾塞的这本《人类前史》可说是为我提供了这方面的一次生动叙述。 全书围绕一个问题展开“我们从哪里来?”当然,时至今日,多数人已经接受了人是从猿进化而来的观念...
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...
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”,...
图书标签: 科普 历史 anthropology 大分流 popscience history Evolution
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.
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.
评分有电影版.
评分有电影版.
The Journey of Man 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书