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Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into evolutionary biology and biogeography. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Prize honoring the Scientist as Poet, presented by The Rockefeller University. His previous books include Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, and Guns, Germs, and Steel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
- 社会学
- 历史
- 人类学
- JaredDiamond
- 自然科学
- 贾雷德·戴蒙德
- 社科
- 英文
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. A characteristically provocative, enlightening, and entertaining book, The World Until Yesterday will be essential and delightful reading.
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一本《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》足矣让戴蒙德不朽，作为地理决定论界的扛把子，戴蒙德把在新几内亚原始部落几十年的观察、交流和思考融入了一本又一本主题各异的著作，充分体现了一个智人所能达到的思维深度和广度，不愧为我们灵长类的骄傲。在这本书中戴蒙德谈的是传统社会的特点，...
评分读过《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》的人，对贾雷德•戴蒙德不会感到陌生，他是一位演化生物学家，写作横跨历史学、人类学、地理学等学科，试图为历史变迁建立一套演化论的解释范式。 本书延续了戴蒙德的野心，通过对原始“捕猎—采集文明”的观察与研究，作者理清了现代文明的来路，...
评分一本《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》足矣让戴蒙德不朽，作为地理决定论界的扛把子，戴蒙德把在新几内亚原始部落几十年的观察、交流和思考融入了一本又一本主题各异的著作，充分体现了一个智人所能达到的思维深度和广度，不愧为我们灵长类的骄傲。在这本书中戴蒙德谈的是传统社会的特点，...
评分 评分读过《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》的人，对贾雷德•戴蒙德不会感到陌生，他是一位演化生物学家，写作横跨历史学、人类学、地理学等学科，试图为历史变迁建立一套演化论的解释范式。 本书延续了戴蒙德的野心，通过对原始“捕猎—采集文明”的观察与研究，作者理清了现代文明的来路，...
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养分很多，但多点客观事实、少点个人感情和shadow boxing，读起来会更流畅
评分开篇就是一个对一个基本问题的陈述：为什么现代人可以放心大胆地在街上走，甚至出了国，到了一个完全陌生的地方也是这样？这个调调我喜欢，它暗示着一个道理：很多似乎理所应当无须探究的事情有着深刻的内涵与精彩的发展历程。
评分Jared Diamond真是越来越能瞎扯了。这特么也能算是人类学作品？！
评分出于Jared Diamond的赫赫威名啃完这本厚厚的学术类英文书。Diamond一如既往在交叉学科的研究方向上令我大开眼界，其研究和分析方法仍然是超一流的，只是这本书里大多结论尚嫌不够强大鲜明。公平得说可能是Diamond在人类学和心理学、语言学、进化生物学等学科的交叉研究上走得太前面了，大部份学者在这些方面的探索还未开始或还未有重大成果。
评分作者用一贯丰富田野调查经验打开了原始社会的大门。
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