卢曼（Niklas luhmann，1927--），德国当代社会学学者，早年曾应征入伍，战后在弗菜堡大学攻读法律，取得律师资格，60年代初赴哈佛大学进行了为时一年的社会学学习，回国后开始专注于学术研究，1968年开始在比勒菲尔德大学任教，直到1993年退休。主要英文著作有：《信任与权力》、《社会分化》、《社会系统》、《现代性观察》等。

Professor John Maynard Smith has written an account of a new way of thinking about evolution which has been developed in the last ten years. The theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is relevant whenever the best thing for an...(展开全部)

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The pap...(展开全部)

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The pap...(展开全部)

Professor John Maynard Smith has written an account of a new way of thinking about evolution which has been developed in the last ten years. The theory of games, first developed to analyse economic behaviour, is modified so that it can be applied to evolving populations. John Maynard Smith's concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy is relevant whenever the best thing for an...(展开全部)

Some thirty years ago Jürgen Habermas introduced the idea of analyzing contemporary society from a historical and practical standpoint while remaining faithful to the canons of empirical science. Although the general features of this idea are still evident in his mature views, his original conception of critical social theory has undergone considerable development. The five ess...(展开全部)

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language is a 1996 book by Robin Dunbar, in which Dunbar argues that language evolved from social grooming. He further suggests that a stage of this evolution was the telling of gossip, an argument supported by the observation that language is adapted for storytelling. The book has been criticised on the grounds that since words are so chea...(展开全部)

Arguing that gossiping is vital to a society, and that there is no such thing as "idle" gossip, this book disputes the assumption that language developed in male-male relationships. The author believes that, on the contrary, language evolved among women, and contends that, although men are just as likely to natter as women, women gossip more about other people, thus strengtheni...(展开全部)

比尔·奈尔（Bill Nye） 科学家、工程师、喜剧演员兼发明家。曾在康奈尔大学师从卡尔·萨根教授，并获得机械工程专业学士学位；还曾在波音公司工作，作为工程师参与研发波音747客机；随后制作并主持了广受欢迎的电视节目《科学人比尔·奈尔》（Bill Nye the Science Guy），该节目曾获得艾美奖。他拥有理海大学、威拉姆特大学、昆尼皮亚克大学、伦斯勒理工学院、戈切尔学院和约翰－霍普金斯大学6个荣誉博士学位，并定期访问康奈尔大学。 科瑞·S. 鲍威尔（Corey S.Powell） 《美国科学家》和《探索》杂志前任主编，目前是《探索》杂志特约编辑，继续为其撰写专栏文章和博客。他还是纽约大学SHERP科学新闻计划的访问学者，以及《大众科学》《史密森尼》《鹦鹉螺》《万古》等杂志的自由撰稿人，其作品《行星的疯狂》入选《2014年美国科学和自然最佳写...(展开全部)