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PANDORA'S SEED

作者: Spencer Wells 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2010-06

版次: 1

ISBN: 9781400062157

定价: 225.00

装帧: 精装

开本: 16开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 230页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>语言文字

In The Journey of Man, renowned geneticist andanthropologist Spencer Wells traced human evolution back to ourearliest ancestors, creating a remarkable and readable map of ourdistant past. Now, in his thrilling new book, he examines ourcultural inheritance in order to find the turning point that led usto the path we are on today, one he believes we must veer from inorder to survive.
  Pandora’s Seed takes us on a powerful and provocativeglobe-trotting tour of human history, back to a seminal eventroughly ten thousand years ago, when our species made a radicalshift in its way of life: We became farmers rather thanhunter-gatherers, setting in motion a momentous chain of eventsthat could not have been foreseen at the time.
  Although this decision to control our own food supply is whatpropelled us into the modern world, Wells demonstrates—using thelatest genetic and anthropological data—that such a dramatic shiftin lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning torecognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans moresedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. Theexpanding population and the need to apportion limited resourcessuch as water created hierarchies and inequalities. The desire tocontrol—and no longer cooperate with—nature altered the concept ofreligion, making deities fewer and more influential, foreshadowingtoday’s fanaticisms. The proximity of humans and animals breddiseases that metastasized over time. Freedom of movement andchoice were replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear ofthe anxiety and depression millions feel today. Wells offers ahopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were alwaysill suited, recommending that we change our priorities andself-destructive appetites before it’s too late.
  A riveting and accessible scientific detective story, Pandora’sSeed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the pastand concerned about the future. Spencer Wells is an Explorer-in-Residence at the NationalGeographic Society and Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor atCornell University. He leads the Genographic Project, which iscollecting and analyzing hundreds of thousands of DNA samples frompeople around the world in order to decipher how our ancestorspopulated the planet. Wells received his Ph.D. from HarvardUniversity and conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford.He has written two books, The Journey of Man and Deep Ancestry. Helives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, a documentaryfilmmaker. Foreword

One:   Mystery in the Map

Two:   Growing a New Culture..

Three: Diseased

Four:  Demented

Five:   Fast-Forward

Six:    Heated Argument

Seven: Toward a New Mythos  . .

Acknowledgments

Sources and Further Reading

Index
内容简介:
In The Journey of Man, renowned geneticist andanthropologist Spencer Wells traced human evolution back to ourearliest ancestors, creating a remarkable and readable map of ourdistant past. Now, in his thrilling new book, he examines ourcultural inheritance in order to find the turning point that led usto the path we are on today, one he believes we must veer from inorder to survive.
  Pandora’s Seed takes us on a powerful and provocativeglobe-trotting tour of human history, back to a seminal eventroughly ten thousand years ago, when our species made a radicalshift in its way of life: We became farmers rather thanhunter-gatherers, setting in motion a momentous chain of eventsthat could not have been foreseen at the time.
  Although this decision to control our own food supply is whatpropelled us into the modern world, Wells demonstrates—using thelatest genetic and anthropological data—that such a dramatic shiftin lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning torecognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans moresedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. Theexpanding population and the need to apportion limited resourcessuch as water created hierarchies and inequalities. The desire tocontrol—and no longer cooperate with—nature altered the concept ofreligion, making deities fewer and more influential, foreshadowingtoday’s fanaticisms. The proximity of humans and animals breddiseases that metastasized over time. Freedom of movement andchoice were replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear ofthe anxiety and depression millions feel today. Wells offers ahopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were alwaysill suited, recommending that we change our priorities andself-destructive appetites before it’s too late.
  A riveting and accessible scientific detective story, Pandora’sSeed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the pastand concerned about the future.
作者简介:
Spencer Wells is an Explorer-in-Residence at the NationalGeographic Society and Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of ’56 Professor atCornell University. He leads the Genographic Project, which iscollecting and analyzing hundreds of thousands of DNA samples frompeople around the world in order to decipher how our ancestorspopulated the planet. Wells received his Ph.D. from HarvardUniversity and conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford.He has written two books, The Journey of Man and Deep Ancestry. Helives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, a documentaryfilmmaker.
目录:
Foreword

One:   Mystery in the Map

Two:   Growing a New Culture..

Three: Diseased

Four:  Demented

Five:   Fast-Forward

Six:    Heated Argument

Seven: Toward a New Mythos  . .

Acknowledgments

Sources and Further Reading

Index

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