Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, "Genes, Mind, and Culture" introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline dur...(展开全部)

爱德华·O·威尔逊（Edward O. Wilson），世界杰出生物学家之一，“社会生物学”奠基人和最早宣传“生物多样性”概念的人之一。他在全世界获得了100多个奖项和荣誉，包括美国国家科学奖章、瑞典皇家科学院颁发的克拉福德奖、日本国际生物学奖，并以著作《论人的本性》（On Human Nature）《蚂蚁》（ The Ants，合著）两次获得普利策非虚构类图书奖。他目前是哈佛大学比较动物学博物馆昆虫馆的名誉馆长兼荣誉研究教授。 查尔斯·J·拉姆斯登（Charles J. Lumsden, 1949— ），多伦多大学医学教授。他的其他著作包括《普罗米修斯之火》（与爱德华·O·威尔逊合著）、《字母表与大脑》（与凯尔克霍弗合著）、《临床方法》（与怀特赛德合著） 刘利，北京大学哲学系科学技术哲学专业博士，大连理工大学哲学系师资博士后出站，研究方向为进化思想...(展开全部)

The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture. Bui...(展开全部)

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world’s leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth’s creatures? The key to understanding the existence of altruism, Wilson argues, is by understanding the role it plays in the social organization of groups. Group...(展开全部)

From reviews of the hardback: "A fascinating book which deserves a wide audience." European Medical Journal "a very significant contribution to the field of evolutionary thinking on human psychology and culture." British Journal of Medical Psychology Researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary histo...(展开全部)

"Writing with grace and clarity...he touches on everything from the evolution of the Western tonal system, to the Freudian theory of music as infantile escapism, to the differing roles o the right and left brain in perceiving music." WALL STREET JOURNAL Drawing on his own life long passion for music and synthesizing the theories of Plato, Schopenhauer, Stravinsky, Nietzsche, B...(展开全部)

Rudy Rucker is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University and the author of numerous books on mathematics and philosophy, including Artificial Life Lab, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, and The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of Higher Universes. Among his works of science fiction are White Light, Software, and Space-Time Donu...(展开全部)

Rudy Rucker is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University and the author of numerous books on mathematics and philosophy, including Artificial Life Lab, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, and The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of Higher Universes. Among his works of science fiction are White Light, Software, and Space-Time Donu...(展开全部)

作者:(美)加里·保罗·纳卜汉 译者:秋凉 加里·保罗·纳卜汉是一位享有国际声誉的自然作家，长期致力于保护生物多样性与社会文化多样性。包括《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》在内的许多著名杂志都评价他为本地化饮食运动的先驱，并认为他在保护社区文化与食物多样性方面做出了创造性的贡献。作为亚利桑那大学西南中心凯洛格讲座教授，纳卜汉长期在美国与墨西哥边境从事建立可持续食物生态系统的研究。他也是最早提出通过饮食治疗来控制糖尿病的学者。纳卜汉同时拥有一个小型农场，用于实践自己关于可持续食物生态系统的理论。纳卜汉著述颇丰，多部作品被翻译成阿拉伯语、西班牙语、意大利语、法语、韩语、日语等多国文字在世界范围内传播，并获得了麦克阿瑟天才奖、兰南文学奖等多项大奖。秋凉，本名季星，毕业于上海交通大学医学院，现任上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院产前诊断实验室主任，上海市儿科医学研究所细...(展开全部)