Jared Diamond is Professor of Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in physiology, he later took up the study of ecology and has made fundamental contributions to both disciplines. He is among the worlds leading zoologists and experts on birds. He has made many trips to the mountains of New Guinea to study their unique birds, rediscovered their long-lost bowerbird, and advises New Guinea governments on conservation. As well as writing technical articles in his many fields of interest, Jared Diamond writes regularly for popular science journals. He is married, and has twin sons.
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.
5个玩家选择了一张超大的随机地图,游戏开始了 开局: 中国运气极好,主城边上要矿有矿、要树有树、要地有地,很快就升级了主城进入青铜时代,还种上了地。中国不停出农民,人口增长很快,不久又进入了铁器时代。 欧洲运气也不错,不缺什么资源,虽然发展没中国快,但也第二...
评分 评分尽管anthropology在国外很多学院已有上百年历史,人类学在国内似乎还是一个很年轻的词语,相关的中文书籍也不是很多,Jared Diamond的这本普利策获奖作品不失为了解这一领域的一扇大门。 除了文字的记录,考古的发掘,其实还可以从许多角度审视历史,不同的方法,变幻的尺度,...
评分我不是学历史的,不知道“大历史”这个词具体是什么时候在大陆悄然兴起。从我自己的感受来看,大概是黄仁宇的《中国大历史》一书以中文出版后热卖,“大历史”的观念就开始在民众和一般知识分子中流行。随后就有一系列西方学者的历史著作被介绍到中国。在我看来,大历史观念似...
评分《人类简史》自出版以来红遍全球。作者赫拉利借用当代人类学、心理学、生物学的研究成果强调:人类的行为,是由其生物属性所决定的,并不断与其创造的文化发生冲突。同时,赫拉利又不断对人类的过去和未来发出先知般的评价和语言,对人类生存状态进行哲学思考。《人类简史》的...
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评分听闻已久一直想读的书。在印度的时候去二手书店找这本书,隐约记得书名和枪炮细菌有关,于是问店员,有无一本书叫做“Guns, rose and bacteria”?店员竟然当即指正说,是“Guns Germs and Steel”并马上告知具体位置,极为专业。
评分作者自己一句话总结:“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.” 这种通过把社会科学提出的高低问题洋洋洒洒地平摊给自然科学的手段,不失为anti-Racism一法。配合同获普利策的另一哈佛人Wilson的《Sociobiology: The New Synthesis》风味更佳。
评分Circumstances change, and past primacy is no guarantee of future primacy. 正所谓时势造英雄,英雄亦适时罢。花了一个多月断断续续地读完这本小书,用振聋发聩来形容毫不为过。
评分作者自己一句话总结:“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.” 这种通过把社会科学提出的高低问题洋洋洒洒地平摊给自然科学的手段,不失为anti-Racism一法。配合同获普利策的另一哈佛人Wilson的《Sociobiology: The New Synthesis》风味更佳。
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