Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries. "A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight." THE N...(展开全部)

“如果不清楚萨根的背景，你很难想到这本书出自一位行星天文学家之手。本书并非着意于传达生物学知识，而是在现有发现的基础上对智力的过去与未来进行推测，并探讨梦境、睡眠、多种文明共有的龙的传说、模糊而强烈的本能恐惧等事物的起源。也许，我们早餐吃煎蛋的习惯也与进化史上千万年前的事件有着某种关联。”——www.oursci.org

Primeval women s swollen breasts indicated lactation, pregnancy and fertility to excited males. In the author s scenario, women lost their estrus and developed permanently enlarged breasts, "an anatomy of deception," to tame and domesticate exploitative males whose interests were narrowly focused only on mating. Female orgasm, though not necessary for reproduction, may have con...(展开全部)

Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, yet Homo Sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. In the intervening period, dozens of species of early ape and human have lived and died out, leaving behind the fossilized remains that h...(展开全部)

Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, yet homo sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. In the intervening period, dozens of species of early ape and human have lived and died out, leaving behind the fossilized remains that h...(展开全部)

If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is t...(展开全部)

戴维·巴斯，得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校心理学系教授，在人类择偶策略的科学研究领域，巴斯享有很高的声望，是进化心理学领域的集大成者。 巴斯已经出版了9部著作，发表了200多篇学术论文，同时获得过众多奖项，包括美国心理学会（APA）颁发的心理学早期生涯杰出科学贡献奖和斯坦利·霍尔奖。他还在世界范围内广泛发表演讲，并多次作为人类择偶策略方面的专家出现在电视科学纪录片和突发新闻故事中。

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian Patrick Manning traces how this Human System evolved from Homo sapiens’ beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization – the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today’s newly globa...(展开全部)