Evolution's Bite 在线电子书 图书标签: 古生物学 人类学
发表于2025-02-27
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Peter S. Ungar is Distinguished Professor and director of the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of Teeth: A Very Short Introduction and Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity and the editor of Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar brings together for the first time cutting-edge advances in understanding human evolution and climate change with new approaches to uncovering dietary clues from fossil teeth to present a remarkable investigation into the ways that teeth—their shape, chemistry, and wear—reveal how we came to be.
Ungar describes how a tooth's "foodprints"—distinctive patterns of microscopic wear and tear—provide telltale details about what an animal actually ate in the past. These clues, combined with groundbreaking research in paleoclimatology, demonstrate how a changing climate altered the food options available to our ancestors, what Ungar calls the biospheric buffet. When diets change, species change, and Ungar traces how diet and an unpredictable climate determined who among our ancestors was winnowed out and who survived, as well as why we transitioned from the role of forager to farmer. By sifting through the evidence—and the scars on our teeth—Ungar makes the important case for what might or might not be the most natural diet for humans.
Traveling the four corners of the globe and combining scientific breakthroughs with vivid narrative, Evolution's Bite presents a unique dental perspective on our astonishing human development.
其实在真正讲关于这本书的东西之前想先讲一个别的事。 关于牙齿的神奇之处,我第一次深刻的认识到,是看美剧《识骨寻踪》的时候。 第六季21集,一个聋哑的15岁少女,浑身血迹拿着凶器走在街上,警方怀疑她涉及命案,将她送到了法医Brennan(女主)这里。总之随着剧情发展,众人...
评分其实在真正讲关于这本书的东西之前想先讲一个别的事。 关于牙齿的神奇之处,我第一次深刻的认识到,是看美剧《识骨寻踪》的时候。 第六季21集,一个聋哑的15岁少女,浑身血迹拿着凶器走在街上,警方怀疑她涉及命案,将她送到了法医Brennan(女主)这里。总之随着剧情发展,众人...
评分想读《进化的咬痕》,是因为之前读《人类简史》《人体的故事》,尤其是利伯曼的《人体的故事》,提到牙齿与进化时的故事是极为有趣的。说现代人之所以长智齿时会疼,或者长歪,是因为人在长期进化中,食物越来越精细,下巴变小了。小脸美女虽然符合审美,但难言之隐,恐怕也没...
评分 评分几万年前的人类生活究竟是亚当夏娃或是茹毛饮血,若是光靠想象不免单薄。古生物学家就像福尔摩斯,从史前痕迹中寻找人类祖先的蛛丝马迹。乔治·居维叶曾经有言:“给我看看你的牙齿,我便能知道你的身份。”古生物学家更厉害,看看原始人的牙齿,不仅能知道原始人吃什么,还能...
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