简介
书名：Promethean Fire
作者：Charles J. Lumsden
简介：There is a missing link in human evolution about which few facts are known and surprisingly little has been written. It is not any one of the intermediate forms connecting modern man to his apelike ancestors. It is something much more challenging -- the early human mind. How did it come into existence? And why? In this highly readable book, Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson take us down the twisting corridors through which our species traveled in the two-million-year odyssey from Homo habilis to modern man. They ask why, out of the millions of species that have emerged and gone extinct, human beings alone took the last, abrupt journey to high intelligence and advanced culture. Lumsden and Wilson attribute the sudden emergence of the human mind to the activation of a mechanism both obedient to physical law and unique to man. This "Promethean fire" (an allusion to the original metaphor of the origin of mind) is geneculture coevolution, a mutually acting change in the genes and culture that carried man beyond the previous limits of biology -- yet restrains his nature on an elastic, unbreakable leash.
作者：Charles J. Lumsden
简介：There is a missing link in human evolution about which few facts are known and surprisingly little has been written. It is not any one of the intermediate forms connecting modern man to his apelike ancestors. It is something much more challenging -- the early human mind. How did it come into existence? And why? In this highly readable book, Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson take us down the twisting corridors through which our species traveled in the two-million-year odyssey from Homo habilis to modern man. They ask why, out of the millions of species that have emerged and gone extinct, human beings alone took the last, abrupt journey to high intelligence and advanced culture. Lumsden and Wilson attribute the sudden emergence of the human mind to the activation of a mechanism both obedient to physical law and unique to man. This "Promethean fire" (an allusion to the original metaphor of the origin of mind) is geneculture coevolution, a mutually acting change in the genes and culture that carried man beyond the previous limits of biology -- yet restrains his nature on an elastic, unbreakable leash.
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