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。
发表于2024-05-03
The 10,000 Year Explosion 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
呼!好歹看完了,词汇表和注释也瞄了一眼。如今看完一本书越来越难,读书本领越来越渣。只有一条稍可安慰:屡败屡战。 这本书,似乎还没有中文名,应该叫做什么比较好?《一万年来人类的爆发式演化》?《演化一万年》?《生命不息,演化不止》?《一万年不少,足够演化》? ...
评分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...
评分作者在书中向《枪炮病菌与钢铁》叫板,全书风格也有点类似《枪炮病菌与钢铁》的旁征博引,不过程度稍逊。作者认为不同族群之间在基因上的差异可能影响了他们之间的竞争结果,而且基因上的差异比较难通过学习来短期跟进。比如耐乳糖的印欧人很快扩张到欧洲大部分地区,智人能说...
评分呼!好歹看完了,词汇表和注释也瞄了一眼。如今看完一本书越来越难,读书本领越来越渣。只有一条稍可安慰:屡败屡战。 这本书,似乎还没有中文名,应该叫做什么比较好?《一万年来人类的爆发式演化》?《演化一万年》?《生命不息,演化不止》?《一万年不少,足够演化》? ...
评分正如卢梭所言:人生而自由,然而无往不在枷锁之中。 对于一个人,肉体是我们的枷锁。对于一个物种,遗传物质(DNA)是我们的枷锁。 从文化角度,否认这种枷锁或许是一种进步,或者说是从过去痛苦经验带来的反省。但从科学角度来说却是政治正确带来的新的枷锁。 列维-斯特劳斯《...
图书标签: 科普 生物 人类进化 进化 社会学 历史 人类学 科学
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.
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评分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。
评分内容不错 易读 最大的问题就是老给Jared Diamond做广告
评分道理是那么个道理,但这么大胆地说出来真不容易。好多猜想都很有意思,但作为一本科普读物吧也说不了太细...
The 10,000 Year Explosion 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书