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The human factor

机译:人为因素

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Writing for a popular audience is not quite as easy as authors generally think it is. Most popularizations are much too technical and not sufficiently engrossing. Both Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Robin Dunbar, on the other hand, have gauged their audience just right. They have simplified without falsifying and have picked a topic that people find endlessly fascinating ― the nature of human nature. These two books also complement each other nicely. Dunbar begins with the fossil record and then leaps ahead to the present. Most of his discussion concerns current ideas about human beings as we have studied them scientifically. Fernandez-Armesto devotes most of his book to filling in the gap between our fossil ancestors and the present, expanding his investigations to include both the history and the prehistory of humans at a wide variety of places and times. Those of us living right now in the West assume there is such a thing as human nature that makes us different from other animals, and that this belief stretches back indefinitely in time. We might disagree about what this nature is, but we take for granted that it exists. As it turns out, a belief in human nature is of recent vintage and is not all that widespread.
机译:为大众读者写作并不像作者通常认为的那么容易。大多数普及技术性太强,而且不够吸引人。另一方面,费利佩·费尔南德斯·阿梅斯托和罗宾·邓巴都对观众进行了正确评估。他们进行了简化,却没有伪造,并选择了一个让人永无止境地吸引人的话题-人性的本质。这两本书也很好地互补。邓巴从化石记录开始,然后飞跃到现在。他的大多数讨论都涉及我们对人类的最新观念,因为我们已经对其进行了科学研究。费尔南德斯·阿梅斯托(Fernandez-Armesto)的大部分著作致力于填补我们的化石祖先与现在之间的空白,将他的研究范围扩大到包括人类在各个地方和各个时代的历史和史前时期。我们现在生活在西方的那些人认为,有一种人类本性使我们与其他动物有所不同,并且这种信念可以无限期地追溯到过去。我们可能不同意这种性质,但是我们认为它的存在是理所当然的。事实证明,对人性的信仰是近来的历史,并没有那么广泛。

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  • 来源
    《Nature》 |2004年第6987期|p.17-18|共2页
  • 作者

    David L. Hull;

  • 作者单位

    Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-1315, USA;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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