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。
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.
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 评分 评分 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...
对我来说,读起来缺少惊喜。但还是值得一看。
评分思路清晰,论证有力,重要的不是结论,而是为思考该领域问题提供了恰当的思路和方法,并推动该方向的研究,其实,一些基本的概略判断本应是学界很容易达成的共识,只是碍于意识形态而被回避和忽略
评分内容不错 易读 最大的问题就是老给Jared Diamond做广告
评分怎么办我觉得我被说服了……从此我就要以一个政治不正确的人的身份度过余生了(>_<)
评分内容不错 易读 最大的问题就是老给Jared Diamond做广告
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