出版社: Princeton University Press
副标题: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
出版年: 2015-10
页数: 464
定价: USD 29.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780691166858
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a ...
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.
Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species’ genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.
Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species’ immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Joseph Henrich is professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution at the University of British Columbia, where he is a professor in the departments of psychology and economics. He is the coauthor of Why Humans Cooperate and the coeditor of Experimenting with Social Norms.
目录 · · · · · ·
1 A Puzzling Primate 1
2 It's Not Our Intelligence 8
3 Lost European Explorers 22
4 How to Make a Cultural Species 34
5 What Are Big Brains For? Or, How Culture Stole Our Guts 54
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1 A Puzzling Primate 1
2 It's Not Our Intelligence 8
3 Lost European Explorers 22
4 How to Make a Cultural Species 34
5 What Are Big Brains For? Or, How Culture Stole Our Guts 54
6 Why Some People Have Blue Eyes 83
7 On the Origin of Faith 97
8 Prestige, Dominance, and Menopause 117
9 In-Laws, Incest Taboos, and Rituals 140
10 Intergroup Competition Shapes Cultural Evolution 166
11 Self-Domestication 185
12 Our Collective Brains 211
13 Communicative Tools with Rules 231
14 Enculturated Brains and Honorable Hormones 260
15 When We Crossed the Rubicon 280
16 Why Us? 296
17 A New Kind of Animal 314
Notes 333
References 373
Illustration Credits 429
Index 431
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全书的主旨是有一些你认为无法理解的东西,其实是有道理和有用的。 前言讲了作者为什么从一个工程师转而研究这个领域,并且在同学当中找到了妻子,嗯,之后成功拿到了国家类似于院士的一个职位,并且继续在一个温哥华附近的大学里面教书。 第1章说,如果我们跟猩猩比赛谁能更快... (展开)这是一本神书,你一定要看。
你知道人类到底比猩猩聪明在哪吗?
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地球上有这么多的物种,你知道为什么人类最终成为了这个地球的主宰?而不是猩猩、猴子或者其他生物? 其实这也是人类从很久以来一直研究的问题,科学家们发现猩猩的智力其实和人类也是相当的。为此,甚至出了好几部畅销小说来描绘在某一个时空里猩猩开始觉醒并且反抗人类的画面... (展开)被驯化人类也驯化人类
论弱小的人类如何霸占这个世界?
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纵观历史的长河,许多比人类强壮、聪明的动物都没有能够像人类一样统治地球,甚至有很多的物种是在经历自然种族变迁、演化的过程中种族甚至灭绝了。 我们人类又是靠着怎样的智慧和能力成为这地球上的统治者? 哈佛大学人类进化生物学系教授亨里奇认为,人类成功统治地球的秘密... (展开)> 更多书评 11篇
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2 有用 地下宇航员 2016-12-21 13:57:05
理论有启发。但举的例子总觉得似乎有点牵强,比如什么“神秘的部落占卜仪式是为了随机化狩猎地区进化出来的”,这种大胆功能主义解释不是特别敢信。
1 有用 望月沉沦 2017-02-20 12:08:46
读了一半弃了。不知道是关于进化论的原版书难读还是这本书本身很难。很多内容是越写越偏,还融入了很多关于其他人种的故事。看看未来有没有机会再重新回顾吧
1 有用 crystal 2022-01-01 20:22:00
好书,好几年前读的,已经快忘了。有一个核心的概念,文化演化,好像是群体选择的弱化版,很好的概念。4星半。
0 有用 豆友139630624 2021-11-03 15:57:31
在狭义上密闭空间里二人世界里,正常交流,我的状态
0 有用 牧之 2023-09-19 08:33:36 美国
断断续续听了一个月才听完。感觉听书还是适合这种,小说用听的有点浪费,容易忘记之前讲了啥。这种社科科普书,一个论点反复讲几十页,举各种生动(但不一定靠谱)的例子,就还蛮适合听的。
0 有用 牧之 2023-09-19 08:33:36 美国
断断续续听了一个月才听完。感觉听书还是适合这种,小说用听的有点浪费,容易忘记之前讲了啥。这种社科科普书,一个论点反复讲几十页,举各种生动(但不一定靠谱)的例子,就还蛮适合听的。
1 有用 crystal 2022-01-01 20:22:00
好书,好几年前读的,已经快忘了。有一个核心的概念,文化演化,好像是群体选择的弱化版,很好的概念。4星半。
0 有用 豆友139630624 2021-11-03 15:57:31
在狭义上密闭空间里二人世界里,正常交流,我的状态
1 有用 红黄蓝 2020-03-31 00:54:32
挺多新奇有趣的观点,生物进化不仅是自然的选择,更是文化的影响。人并没有比猩猩聪明,但因为是cultural species,有知识经验的传递和延续,懂得合作与分工。足以见得文化的力量和魅力。最后总结的第七点又讲到不同社会有不同文化习惯,强硬照搬植入外来文化产物很多时候不一定适合。。这也是我毕业论文的观点:)。
0 有用 GuJi 2019-11-11 11:05:14
保持良好的生活习惯,然后慢一点。