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)

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 glob...(展开全部)

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 glob...(展开全部)

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)

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)

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)

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。