塞缪尔·亨廷顿，哈佛大学阿尔伯特·魏斯赫德三世(Albert J.WeatherheadⅢ)学院教授，哈佛国际和地区问题研究所所长，约翰·奥林战略研究所主任。曾任卡特政府国家安全委员会安全计划顾问，《外交政策》杂志发起人与两主编之一，美国政治学会会长。有大量学术著作及论文 问世。

罗伯特·普罗明（Robert Plomin） 英国伦敦国王学院行为遗传学教授, 曾任行为遗传学协会董事、编委。他还被选为英国医学科学院院士，英国科学院院士。

A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses. In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth. A century of genetic re...(展开全部)

Two summers ago, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball’s arm and turned it into a rudimentary “mini-brain.” The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the raw signals of thought. This was life—but whos...(展开全部)

Amazon.com A middle-aged neuroscientist walking down Bourbon Street spots a T-shirt that reads, "I don't know, so maybe I'm not." This stimulus zooms from eyes to brain, neuron by neuron, via tiny junctions called synapses. The results? An immediate chuckle and (sometime later) a groundbreaking book titled The Synaptic Self. To Joseph LeDoux, the simple question, "What makes us...(展开全部)

In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international politics. Now in his controversial new work, Who Are We?, Huntington focuses on an identity crisis closer to home as he exam...(展开全部)