Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes "do not shout commands at us . . . at the very most, they whisper suggestions." He argues that human nature is not so much the result of genetic coding; rather, it is heavily influenced by cultural conditioning and environmental factors. With personal an...(展开全部)

埃力克（1932— ），美国生物学家、生态学家、人口统计学家、教育家。1957年获堪萨斯大学博士学位，现为斯坦福大学生物科学系人口学教授、保护生物学中心主任。1968年因《人口炸弹》一书、提出人口增长与有限资源的告诫而成名。他是美国科学院院士、美国艺术与科学院院士，2012年当选伦敦皇家学会会员。获约翰·缪尔奖、克拉夫奖（生态学的“诺贝尔奖”）、世界生态学奖、蓝色星球奖、杰出生态学家奖等众多奖项。有《蝴蝶与星球》、《生物学与社会》、《种族炸弹》、《地球》、《新世界，新思维》、《对科学和理性的背叛》及《钢索上的人类》等三十余部著作。尽管他的预言饱受争议，他仍然坚信人口过多对人类生存和地球环境构成直接威胁。

In Uncivilised Genes: Human Evolution and the Urban Paradox, Gustav Milne explores how we can reconfigure our lifestyles and urban environments, based on an understanding of our prehistoric past, in order to bring about a richer future for mankind. We evolved as hunter-gatherers over a period of more than three million years: living off the land within small tribal societies in...(展开全部)

Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also a prize, strange and intriguing, for the “Most Human Human.” Brian Christian—a yo...(展开全部)

肯•理查森（Ken Richardson）是英国开放大学人类发展与学习中心的名誉高级研究员，著有《理解心理学》《理解智力》《认知发展的模型》以及《人类潜能的起源》。

肯•理查森（Ken Richardson）是英国开放大学人类发展与学习中心的名誉高级研究员，著有《理解心理学》《理解智力》《认知发展的模型》以及《人类潜能的起源》。

A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions fr...(展开全部)

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the i...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·韦德（Nicholas Wade） 英国剑桥大学国王学院自然科学学士。曾担任《自然》（Nature）杂志副主编、驻华盛顿记者，华盛顿《科学》（Science）杂志记者，《纽约时报》（New York Times）编辑记者（科学、环境及防务方向）。韦德现在是自由撰稿人、记者，写了三部关于人类进化的著作：《黎明之前》（Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors）——用基因技术颠覆史前五万年人类进化史；《信仰本能》（The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures）——分析宗教行为进化历史；《麻烦的继承者》（A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Hum...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·韦德（Nicholas Wade） 英国剑桥大学国王学院自然科学学士。曾担任《自然》（Nature）杂志副主编、驻华盛顿记者，华盛顿《科学》（Science）杂志记者，《纽约时报》（New York Times）编辑记者（科学、环境及防务方向）。韦德现在是自由撰稿人、记者，写了三部关于人类进化的著作：《黎明之前》（Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors）——用基因技术颠覆史前五万年人类进化史；《信仰本能》（The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures）——分析宗教行为进化历史；《麻烦的继承者》（A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Hum...(展开全部)