继承:现代世界的进化起源
"An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity's evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures." —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
The ancient inheritance that made us who we are—and is now driving us to ruin.
Each of us is endowed with an inheritance—a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the rise of more sophisticated technologies, more organized religions, more expansive empires. But now, for the first time, it's failing us. We find ourselves hurtling toward a future of unprecedented political polarization, deadlier war, and irreparable environmental destruction.
In Inheritance, renowned anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how our biases have shaped humanity's past and imperil its future. He argues that three biases—conformism, religiosity, and tribalism—drive human behavior everywhere. Forged by natural selection and harnessed by thousands of years of cultural evolution, these biases catalyzed the greatest transformations in human history, from the birth of agriculture and the arrival of the first kings to the rise and fall of human sacrifice and the creation of multiethnic empires. Taking us deep into modern-day tribes, including terrorist cells and predatory ad agencies, Whitehouse shows how, as we lose the cultural scaffolding that allowed us to manage our biases, the world we've built is spiraling out of control.
By uncovering how human nature has shaped our collective history, Inheritance unveils a surprising new path to solving our most urgent modern problems. The result is a powerful reappraisal of the human journey, one that transforms our understanding of who we are, and who we could be.
中文| 2024年8月20日|国际标准图书编号:067429162X | 368页|真正的EPUB | 1.40 MB “对人类进化包袱的深刻而令人惊叹的探索,解释了我们物种的一些最大的成功和失败。”——尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里,《智人》的作者 古老的遗产造就了我们,现在正把我们推向毁灭。 我们每个人都有一种遗传——一套进化的偏见和文化工具,塑造了我们行为的方方面面。无数代人以来,这一遗产将我们带到了更高的高度:推动了更复杂的技术、更有组织的宗教和更广阔的帝国的崛起。但现在,它第一次让我们失望了。我们发现自己正朝着一个前所未有的政治两极分化、更致命的战争和不可挽回的环境破坏的未来疾驰而去。 在《继承》一书中,著名人类学家哈维·怀特豪斯全面阐述了我们的偏见是如何塑造人类的过去并危及其未来的。他认为,三种偏见——顺从、宗教虔诚和部落主义——驱使着人类的行为无处不在。这些偏见是由自然选择锻造的,并被数千年的文化进化所利用,催化了人类历史上最伟大的变革,从农业的诞生和第一位国王的到来,到人类牺牲的兴衰和多民族帝国的建立。怀特豪斯带领我们深入现代部落,包括恐怖组织和掠夺性广告公司,展示了当我们失去了让我们管理偏见的文化支架时,我们建立的世界是如何失控的。 通过揭示人性如何塑造我们的集体历史,《继承》为解决我们最紧迫的现代问题开辟了一条令人惊讶的新道路。其结果是对人类旅程进行了强有力的重新评估,改变了我们对自己是谁以及我们可以成为谁的理解。本站不对文件进行储存,仅提供文件链接,请自行下载,本站不对文件内容负责,请自行判断文件是否安全,如发现文件有侵权行为,请联系管理员删除。
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