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.
0. 发现书看一半时往往更愿意写评论。常常看完了之后当初的兴奋也没了。 所以,这本砖头般厚实的书今天刚刚K完四分之一,因为兴奋莫名,所以先来说几句。要是看完了还有要讲的,再来添吧。。。 这本书已经流行了好一阵子了,可是这个书名老是让我想起那个叫“Gun & Roses” ...
評分 評分书是好书,但这本最大的问题是翻译质量太差了!!也就是获取个基本信息,完全体会不到文字的美。句子又臭又长,一看就是对着英语原句对照过来的,翻译质量太差了。怀疑就是某个老师找了几个学生一人一部分凑出来的。 --
評分零、 戴蒙德的专业是生物学和新几内亚人类学考察,除此之外写的都是科普书,而且前后重复(后面所有的书不过是扩写他的第一本书第三种猩猩而已),观点陈旧(他的人类学理论训练很可能停留在人类学2.0版本的反思民族志之前,因此习以为常地使用人类学1.0版本的西方中心论或东方...
刷上瞭一道三觀。從環境剖析不同大陸人類有史以來的發展曆程,整體架構層次分明,極有說服力,太平洋小島和美洲原住民的故事引人入勝。細節略顯單薄模糊。中譯本失去原版的流暢文風,故不建議讀。
评分農作物與傢畜,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。
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评分寫得太好瞭!邏輯非常清晰:歐亞大陸的居民因優厚的自然環境而率先發明瞭農業,進而有富餘的食物提供給不從事農業生産的專業人士,如工匠、士兵和官僚,還在與傢畜的接觸中擁有瞭對諸多病菌的免疫力,最終讓歐亞大陸在麵對美洲、大洋洲和撒哈拉以南的非洲的原住民時無往不利,讓從歐亞大陸發源的文明與其後裔成為瞭當今世界的主宰。所謂老天爺賞飯吃,就是如此瞭。#推薦給所有地理愛好者
评分現在果然笨瞭………這書看瞭好久
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