From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered. She explore...(展开全部)

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution...(展开全部)

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution...(展开全部)

作者简介 安吉拉·萨伊尼，牛津大学工程学硕士，麻省理工大学研究员，英国科学记者、节目主持人，曾出版：《极客帝国：一个宅在实验室里的古怪民族如何撼动世界》。同时为《科学》《连线》《卫报》《新科学家》等各大刊物供稿。她也是BBC电台的节目主持人，曾获得由英国科学作家协会和美国科学进步协会颁发的奖项，并被评为欧洲年度科学记者。 译者简介 李贯峰，华东师范大学哲学博士，任教于中国计量大学人文与外语学院哲学研究所。译著有：《情感的演化：20世纪情绪心理学简史》《从柏拉图到维尼熊 : 哲学经典导读》《人文科学宏大理论的回归》《厕所里的哲学》《大卫·休谟：启蒙与怀疑》。

hrough the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world’s top-notch public high schools, an investigative reporter explains how these systems cultivate the “smartest” kids on the planet. How Do Other Countries Create “Smarter” Kids? In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems t...(展开全部)

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent --brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproa...(展开全部)

In this expanded edition, Wheatley provides examples of how non-linear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, Wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning.

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows readers to discover...(展开全部)

The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This important new data has clarified and added to our knowledge from archaeology and anthropology, helped resolve long-existing controv...(展开全部)

大卫·赖克 ● 古人类DNA领域的世界级领跑者。哈佛医学院遗传学系教授、霍华德·休斯医学研究所研究员。 ● 2015年，因为率先通过大规模测序和分析远古人类的基因组数据来揭示人类历史，被《自然》杂志评为“年度十大人物”之一。 ●荣获百万美元的“丹·大卫奖”、美国科学促进 会的“纽科姆·克利夫兰奖”、美国国家科学院的“分子生物学奖”等多项殊荣。 译者简介 叶凯雄 佐治亚大学遗传学系助理教授，研究方向为营养基因组学和人类进化生物学。之前参与审校了《我们为什么会生病》。 胡正飞 资深译者。译作有《动物武器》《哪些科学观点必须去死》等。