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The World Until Yesterday is a triumph.”--Paul R. Ehrlich, author of Human Natures “ The World Until Yesterday is another eye-opening and completely enchanting book by one of our major intellectual forces, as a writer, a thinker, a scientist, a human being. It's a rare treasure, both as an illuminating personal memoir and an engrossing look into the heart of traditional societies and the ...
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The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as ...
Traditional peoples do have many practices that dismay us and that cause misery for the traditional people themselves, such as strangling widows, abandoning or killing old people, and being trapped in endless cycles of warfare. They also have many admirable practices from which we can learn. In short, they are mosaics of happy and unhappy ...
19. Okt. 2012 · In The World Until Yesterday Jared Diamond examines traditional societies and the ways in which we may be able to learn from them in our era of sedentary desk jobs and virtual, on-line lives. Diamond examines such topics as: trade, conflict resolution, treatment of children and the elderly, risk, religion, language and diet.
29. Okt. 2013 · “The World Until Yesterday [is] a fascinating and valuable look at what the rest of us have to learn from – and perhaps offer to – our more traditional kin.” —Christian Science Monitor “Ambitious and erudite, drawing on Diamond's seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of fields such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, physiology, nutrition and evolutionary biology.
29. Okt. 2013 · Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that ...
Diamond的所有科普著作都共享同一个母题，向过去的人类学习。而在这部书里，“What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?”直接成为了副标题，因此内容也紧扣“学习”而展开。书中，作者通过他人的研究成果和自己在新几内亚传统社会的经历，对比传统社会和当代 ...
