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《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》采用独特的视角,跨学科的方法,以公元前11000年为起点,用不到500页的篇幅呈现了凝练而又不失精彩的13000年的历史演进,深入分析了形成历史的最广泛模式的成因—病菌、政治组织、文字和技术,并进一步指出促成这些成因的终极原因—粮食生产,深入地剖析了环境对人类命运的影响。演化生物学家贾雷德·戴蒙德的皇皇巨著《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》是以耶利的问题为切入点,(耶利的问题是“为什么你们白人制造了那么多的货物并将
With a unique perspective and an interdisciplinary approach, Guns, Viruses and Steel, with a starting length of 11,000 BC, presents a concise and yet wonderful 13,000-year historical evolution in less than 500 pages. The causes of the broadest pattern of history - germs, political organizations, writing and technology - were further pointed out and the ultimate cause of these causes - food production - was analyzed in depth to examine the impact of the environment on human destiny. The echoes of Jeremiah, the emperor’s masterpiece of the evolutionary biologist Judith Diamond, ”Guns, Germs and Steel,“ are the starting points for questions (”The question of Jereh is" Why did you whites make so much goods and