Most moving human history

Author: (French) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by Jiang Zihua, Wang Yan
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Publishing Date: 2006-04-01
Features: When it comes to our origins, people often think there's no need to say much more. They assume they already know everything about our earliest ancestors and regard them with a certain arrogance as some barbaric, less civilized outsiders. However, the facts revealed by science today are enough to astonish us; our nature, appearance, genetic traits, intelligence, and even our own culture—our behavior, lifestyle, and imaginative world—were all determined by our earliest ancestors thousands of years ago. Since then, our identity has changed little. In a way, we are still living in the prehistoric era of humanity. This book avoids any technical jargon and is suitable for all teenagers and adults, regardless of their level of knowledge. It adopts a question-and-answer format, with the author posing various questions to several scientists, especially those as innocent as those a child might ask. Because an increasing number of readers not only want to know what science knows but also want to understand how science knows what it knows.