Jared Diamond is Professor of Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in physiology, he later took up the study of ecology and has made fundamental contributions to both disciplines. He is among the worlds leading zoologists and experts on birds. He has made many trips to the mountains of New Guinea to study their unique birds, rediscovered their long-lost bowerbird, and advises New Guinea governments on conservation. As well as writing technical articles in his many fields of interest, Jared Diamond writes regularly for popular science journals. He is married, and has twin sons.
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.
《人类简史》自出版以来红遍全球。作者赫拉利借用当代人类学、心理学、生物学的研究成果强调:人类的行为,是由其生物属性所决定的,并不断与其创造的文化发生冲突。同时,赫拉利又不断对人类的过去和未来发出先知般的评价和语言,对人类生存状态进行哲学思考。《人类简史》的...
评分【读品】李牧之 如何理解人类的发展史?在挖掘冷冰冰的事实的时候,人们从制度转型的角度来试图解释为什么会这样。而政治、经济与社会则是理解制度转型最重要的三个方面。工业革命之前的历史书写多以政治、军事史为主线,《罗马帝国衰亡史》的作者吉本就自称"史书的主题是公共...
评分 评分算是一种破除人种优越论的解释
评分4.8分,有的人评价不高,说书中的关于人种的解释没有靠谱的。但我认为这并不能降低这本书的价值,这本巨著包括了很多学科的知识,当然会有错误,但更多是震撼的洞见。
评分“到底为什么我们发明了火药却没有发明枪去打欧洲反而在这里坐以待毙?到底为什么当年的四大文明都落得个挨打受穷的命?” -这本书最终试图给一个答案。
评分4.8分,有的人评价不高,说书中的关于人种的解释没有靠谱的。但我认为这并不能降低这本书的价值,这本巨著包括了很多学科的知识,当然会有错误,但更多是震撼的洞见。
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