PANDORA’S SEED: THE UNFORESEEN COST OF CIVILIZATION(OLD TITLE: FALLOUT)

Book ID/图书代码： 00200009B32803

English Summary/英文概要： Terrorism, pandemic disease, and global warming—what do these have in common? To find the answer we need to go back ten millennia, to the wheat fields of the Fertile Crescent and the rice paddies of southern China. It was then that our species made a radical shift in its way of life, progressing from a largely hunter-gatherer society, eking out a living within the constraints of the world around us, to controlling our food supply by domesticating animals and plants. Journey with Dr. Wells on a 10,000-year tour of human history as he charts the rise to power of Homo agriculturis and the effects this radical shift in lifestyle has had on our species, and speculates on where we might be headed in the future.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人類起源之謎
《潘朵拉的種子》
國家地理頻道精彩紀錄
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不論種族或國籍，我們所有人的遠祖都來自人類搖籃，東非。但那已經是6萬年前的事。人類究竟經歷了何種共同旅程？當時我們的先祖在旅程中抵達何處？本書作者Spencer Wells透過科學實驗，幫助我們找到這些問題的答案。作者利用數百名毫無相關的人的DNA，回溯所有人類先祖的腳步。
在過去4年間，Spencer Wells和基因地理計畫國際小組，為了進行這個突破性的研究，已經前往世界各個角落，收集和分析不同人類族群的DNA樣本。目前全球已有超過35萬人參與，持續數年的基因地理計畫，已經描繪出至今最詳盡的人類學圖像，指出人類的各項差異，並且對人類基因史和遷移史提出新發現，讓我們更瞭解各人類族群的共通點和不同之處。(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：Spencer Wells — explorer, geneticist, geographer, and author — takes us on an exciting tour of the last 10,000 years of our history in order to forewarn us of what we shall have to deal with in the next 50 years---Jared Diamond, Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Author Of Guns, Germs And Steel And Collapse

Spencer Wells’s writing combines a deep knowledge of the history of human evolution with a most engaging and lively manner of making that story come alive. Pandora’s Seed draws upon compelling anecdotes and moving personal narratives to crystallize a crucial turning point in the history of our species, the point at which modern human beings stop and look back at our long evolutionary trajectory, and confront squarely its dark side, its cost---Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Spencer Wells has a provocate and timely message. He argues that we are at a critical juncture where our culture could destroy the very essence of what it means to be human ... Everyone with a stake in humanity’s future should read this book---Brian Fagan, Author Of The Great Warming And Cro-Magnon

About the Author/作者介绍： Spencer Wells received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994, and subsequently moved to Stanford University, where he worked with Luca Cavalli-Sforza. He then led the population genetics research group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford.
1994年，Spencer Wells在史丹佛大學展開博士研究後，指導教授是被譽為「遺傳人類學之父」的知名基因學家，路卡卡瓦利斯福札（Luca Cavalli-Sforza）。從這時起，作者開始鑽研原住民族群DNA的多樣性，並且揭露關於遠古人類遷移的古老謎團。Spencer Wells曾經獲頒多座科學獎項，並獲得多筆研究補助金，包含2007年吉斯勒獎（Kistler Prize）中的基因學成就獎。
目前Spencer Wells在英國牛津大學人類遺傳中心，擔任族群遺傳學研究主任。2004年出版的《The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey》，同名紀錄片在全球的國家地理頻道播映。這部紀錄片由作者撰寫主持，詳細記錄2001年至2002年間，他走遍全球收集DNA的遠征歷程。

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