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Human destinies and ultimate causes

机译:人类的命运和最终原因

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Why did the peoples of Europe come to dominate so much of the world ? Or, in the words of the author's New Guinea friend Yali: "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [material goods] and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?". In setting out to answer this question and give the reasons for the regionally differing courses of history, Jared Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope: a history of the world in less than 500 pages which succeeds admirably, where so many others have failed, in analysing some of the basic workings of culture process. Its special quality is its clear-headed search for causes, for the underlying factors that gave some groups in human history the edge over others. Right at the start, the author rejects any ideas of genetic superiority — indeed he speaks of a "likely genetic disadvantage" of the Europeans — and he claims, with conviction, that "there really are broad patterns to history, and the search for their explanation is as productive as it is fascinating".
机译:为什么欧洲人民开始统治整个世界?或者,用作者新几内亚的朋友亚里(Yali)的话说:“为什么白人开发了如此多的货物(物质货物)并带到新几内亚,但我们黑人却很少有自己的货物?”。杰里德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond)着手回答这个问题并说明区域差异的历史进程的原因时,写了一本非凡的著作:一部不到500页的世界历史,令人赞叹的是成功,许多其他失败了,在分析文化过程的一些基本原理时。它的特殊品质是对原因的头脑清醒地寻找原因,这些原因使人类历史上某些群体具有超越其他群体的优势。从一开始,作者就拒绝了任何关于遗传优势的想法-实际上他说的是欧洲人的“可能的遗传劣势”-并且他坚信宣称“历史上确实存在着广泛的模式,并寻求它们的广泛存在。解释既富有成效又令人着迷”。

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    《Nature》 |1997年第6623期|p.339-340|共2页
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    Colin Renfrew;

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  • 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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