How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and...(展开全部)

How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and...(展开全部)

著者简介 许烺光（1909—1999），人类学家，心理人类学的开创者之一。出生于辽宁，毕业于沪江大学社会系，后作为庚款公费生留学伦敦政治经济学院，师从马林诺夫斯基。此后回国任教并在云南开展田野调查。1947年起执教于美国西北大学人类学系，1977—1978年任美国人类学会主席。著有《祖荫下》《驱逐捣蛋者》《美国人与中国人》《氏族、种姓与社团》《家元》等。 译者简介 王燕彬，人类学研究者，哲学博士，主要研究方向：人类学史、人类学理论、宗教人类学。已出版译著费孝通《茧》（合译）。

Sometime around the year 64, in the main square of the city of Amisus (modern Samsun in northern Turkey) on the Black Sea coast, a group of workmen unveiled a new monument. It consisted of three statues representing select members of the imperial family: the emperor Nero, sporting his trademark neck beard; his beautiful second wife Poppaea, her hair bound up in elaborate coiffu...(展开全部)

Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings-driven by revelations discovered in the human genome-has provided compelling new answers to...(展开全部)

Nicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times . In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn , Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never before—a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human language li...(展开全部)

理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins，1941—　） 英国皇家科学院院士，牛津大学首席西蒙尼“公众理解科学教授”，进化论生物学家。他是英国著名科学作家，几乎每本书都是畅销书，并经常在各大媒体引起轰动。2005年，英国《前景》杂志会同美国《外交政策》杂志评选出在世的全球100名最有影响力的公共知识分子，道金斯赫然在列。 1976年出版的《自私的基因》是他最重要的代表作，他的基因观念颠覆了我们对自身的认知，深刻影响了整整一个时代。其他主要作品有《祖先的故事》《延伸的表型》《盲眼钟表匠》《地球上最伟大的表演》《解析彩虹》《魔鬼的牧师》《攀登不可能的山峰》《超越上帝》等。 黄可仁（Yan Wong） 英国进化论生物学家，在牛津大学师从道金斯，并与其合著《祖先的故事》。曾任教于利兹大学，现为广播电视主持人，致力于科学普及。

With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginning...(展开全部)

Frank Ching brings to life 900 years of Chinese history through his own fascinating family tree. Beginning with his search for the grave of his first-recorded ancestor, the 11th-century poet Qin Guan, and ending with a moving account of his relationship with his father, a victim of China's historic upheaval, Frank Ching introduces a colorful cast of characters. His unbroken fam...(展开全部)

With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginning...(展开全部)