Like most of us living in the West I have have pondered this question from time to time. Why did the west come out in front, and will it last? Should we all start learning Chinese? And was it inevitable - were Westerners more open-minded, or harder working, or were we just super-lucky to have had the industrial revolution? Or was it simply the work of exceptional people such as...(展开全部)

Like most of us living in the West I have have pondered this question from time to time. Why did the west come out in front, and will it last? Should we all start learning Chinese? And was it inevitable - were Westerners more open-minded, or harder working, or were we just super-lucky to have had the industrial revolution? Or was it simply the work of exceptional people such as...(展开全部)

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two broad schools of thought on...(展开全部)

[美]伊恩•莫里斯：全球著名历史学家，斯坦福大学历史学和古典文学教授。已出版12部著作。现在居住于美国加利福尼亚州。

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two broad schools of thought on...(展开全部)

[美]伊恩•莫里斯：全球著名历史学家，斯坦福大学历史学和古典文学教授。已出版12部著作。现在居住于美国加利福尼亚州。

尼尔斯·艾崔奇（Niles Eldredge），美国最重要的演化学家之一，生物演化“点断平衡”理论之父，同时，他还是可与《自私的基因》作者道金斯比肩的演化学家和科普作家。在超过45年的时间里，艾崔奇凭借扎实的研究和精彩的著作极大地扩展了公众对生物演化的想象与认知。他至今出版过20多部科普著作，并发表过200多篇文章。2000年，由他撰写的《平衡中的生命》（Life in the Balance）被美国《出版人周刊》誉为史上最好的生物科普著作之一。 20世纪70年代，艾崔奇与好友史蒂芬·古尔德（Stephen Gould）共同开创了生物演化的“点断平衡”理论,这一理论是演化学界的里程碑，不仅对达尔文的进化论形成了重要的补充，也成为了与“自私的基因”理论并驾齐驱的流行演化学说。

"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly argue that evolution is, indeed, the grand unifying idea of biology." -- Donald C. Johanson, Found...(展开全部)

尼尔斯·艾崔奇（Niles Eldredge），美国最重要的演化学家之一，生物演化“点断平衡”理论之父，同时，他还是可与《自私的基因》作者道金斯比肩的演化学家和科普作家。在超过45年的时间里，艾崔奇凭借扎实的研究和精彩的著作极大地扩展了公众对生物演化的想象与认知。他至今出版过20多部科普著作，并发表过200多篇文章。2000年，由他撰写的《平衡中的生命》（Life in the Balance）被美国《出版人周刊》誉为史上最好的生物科普著作之一。 20世纪70年代，艾崔奇与好友史蒂芬·古尔德（Stephen Gould）共同开创了生物演化的“点断平衡”理论,这一理论是演化学界的里程碑，不仅对达尔文的进化论形成了重要的补充，也成为了与“自私的基因”理论并驾齐驱的流行演化学说。

"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly argue that evolution is, indeed, the grand unifying idea of biology." -- Donald C. Johanson, Found...(展开全部)