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”。
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.
所以,我们真的不是电影、书本或博物馆中最常见的原始人形象尼安德特人的后代,北京人也真的不是北京猿人的后代,世界各大洲、各个地方的人们都来自一个共同的祖先,他是生活在6万年前非洲的某个男人。我们来自非洲! 10年前的老书了,开卷之前颇有犹豫。因为之前看过相关的书...
评分在大巴黎排队换工签的时候,收尾了《人类前史--出非洲记》,一部颇有意思的人类学大作,厘清了我好多关于人类学尤其是人类起源的困惑,深入浅出,文风活泼。 我们这一支人带着“亚当”和比他老十几万年的“夏娃”的基因,从非洲出发,一路东西南北转战,作为人族最适应环境的...
评分推荐阅读,作为一本速读书。之前在看《枪炮,钢铁和细菌》的时候注意到了这本书,说起来也有好几个月了。这两本书都是从人类的角度去阐释,不管怎样,这种尝试本身也是难得的,向作者致敬。 本书一开始给出了一个很后怕的事实:世界上的人有很多,人类历史也有好几万年了,但是...
评分推荐阅读,作为一本速读书。之前在看《枪炮,钢铁和细菌》的时候注意到了这本书,说起来也有好几个月了。这两本书都是从人类的角度去阐释,不管怎样,这种尝试本身也是难得的,向作者致敬。 本书一开始给出了一个很后怕的事实:世界上的人有很多,人类历史也有好几万年了,但是...
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...
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