English Summary/英文概要： Who is really in control of our bodies and minds? HIJACKED will take the reader on a whirlwind tour through new scientific findings that challenge our long-held assumptions about who we are and why we do what we do. I will take an in-depth look at examples of how things that aren’t us can manipulate our brains, take over our behaviour, and affect our physical and mental health. Our vulnerability to having our brains manipulated is as evolutionarily ancient as the first brains: insects, rodents, and chimps are all vulnerable to being manipulated. And emerging research is showing that we as humans are not immune to forces that might hijack us for their own ends. From microbes that shape our food preferences to foetal cells that can take over maternal physiology, our lives are not entirely under our control. Our bodies and minds are a constant battleground of manipulation—not just because of foreign cells inside us, but also because of information coming in from the outside world: from our relationships, our families, and the technology we constantly interact with. Should we be worried about being hijacked by these forces outside us that do not share our interests?

Luckily, we have evolved to decrease our vulnerability to manipulation through sophisticated immune systems, cheater-detection systems, and bullshit detectors. But our world has also changed dramatically in recent decades and our anti-mind-control strategies have not necessarily kept pace. Are we now entering an age where we are particularly vulnerable to being hijacked, enabled by more rapid transmission of agents of manipulation, whether microbes or memes? In HIJACKED, readers will learn how we evolved to counter mind-control tactics that come from forces both within and outside of us, and how we can use these many strategies at our disposal to keep ourselves from being hijacked. We will also see how manipulation is not always a bad thing, how it enables us to accomplish things we otherwise wouldn’t be able to do, and how our ability to share and transmit microbes and information is part of what makes us human.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 谁真正控制着我们的身心？《劫持》将带读者展开一场旋风式的旅行，了解新的科学发现，这些发现挑战了我们长期以来对我们是谁以及我们为什么要做和做什么的假设。我将深入研究一些例子，说明那些不属于我们的东西是如何操纵我们的大脑，控制我们的行为，影响我们的身心健康。我们易受大脑操纵的弱点在进化上和第一代大脑一样古老：昆虫、啮齿动物和黑猩猩都很容易被操纵。新的研究表明，作为人类，我们并不能不受可能为了自己的目的劫持我们的力量的免疫。从塑造我们食物偏好的微生物到可以接管母体生理的胎儿细胞，我们的生活并不是完全在我们的控制之下。我们与外界的细胞和思想不断地相互作用，这不仅仅是因为我们的身体和外界的信息在不断地相互作用。我们是否应该担心被那些与我们利益不相干的外部势力所劫持？

幸运的是，我们已经进化到可以通过复杂的免疫系统、作弊者检测系统和胡说八道的探测器来减少我们被操纵的脆弱性。但近几十年来，我们的世界也发生了巨大的变化，我们的反精神控制策略不一定能跟上。我们现在是否正进入一个特别容易被劫持的时代，因为操纵因素（无论是微生物还是模因）的传播速度更快？在《劫持》一书中，读者将了解到我们是如何进化来对抗来自我们内部和外部力量的精神控制策略的，以及我们如何利用这些策略来防止自己被劫持。我们还将看到，操纵并非总是坏事，它如何使我们能够完成无法完成的事情，以及我们如何分享和传递微生物和信息的能力是我们成为人类的一部分。（WYL)

Athena Aktipis, PhD., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, Director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative, and Co-Director of The Human Generosity Project. Aktipis is also the chair of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting, host of the new podcast Zombified, producer of Channel Zed, and author of The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer.