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人類大歷史：知識漫畫──人類誕生

Sapiens: A Graphic History－Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind

by 哈拉瑞, Yuval Noah Harari, 范德穆倫, David Vandermeulen, 卡薩納夫, Daniel Casanave ...

Translated by 林俊宏, 顏志翔 ...

Series series 科學文化
全球熱銷巨著《人類大歷史》精彩改編、精美插圖，隆重推出第1冊〈人類誕生〉，全球同步出版當代思想指標，《人類大歷史》、《人類大命運》、《21世紀的21堂課》作者：哈拉瑞挑戰電影視覺風格全新力作人類這種弱小動物，究竟如何能統治地球？本書不是配了插圖的更新版《人類大歷史》，而是創作出全新的內容希望能觸及那些平時不經常接觸科學，或認為歷史枯燥無味的人你會發現：儘管歷史時而有趣，時而悲慘，卻總是扣人心弦︱哈拉瑞系列巨作　好評推薦︱微軟創辦人... ... Read more

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全球熱銷巨著《人類大歷史》精彩改編、精美插圖，隆重推出第1冊〈人類誕生〉，全球同步出版當代思想指標，《人類大歷史》、《人類大命運》、《21世紀的21堂課》作者：哈拉瑞挑戰電影視覺風格全新力作人類這種弱小動物，究竟如何能統治地球？本書不是配了插圖的更新版《人類大歷史》，而是創作出全新的內容希望能觸及那些平時不經常接觸科學，或認為歷史枯燥無味的人你會發現：儘管歷史時而有趣，時而悲慘，卻總是扣人心弦︱哈拉瑞系列巨作　好評推薦︱微軟創辦人...
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Placebo

Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine

by Dylan Evans ...

A lucid and stimulating explanation of how the body’s natural healing mechanisms work – and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the ‘placebo effect’.Can we really cure ourselves of disease by the power of thought alone? Faith healers and alternative therapists are convinced that we can, but what does science say?Contrary to public perception, orthodox medical opinion is remarkably ... Read more

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A lucid and stimulating explanation of how the body’s natural healing mechanisms work – and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the ‘placebo effect’.Can we really cure ourselves of disease by the power of thought alone? Faith healers and alternative therapists are convinced that we can, but what does science say?Contrary to public perception, orthodox medical opinion is remarkably
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Tooth Development in Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology

by Simon Hillson ...

Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it? Addressing these and other key questions in palaeoanthropology and bioarchaeology, Simon Hillson examines the unique role of teeth in preserving detailed microscopic records of development throughout childhood ... Read more

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Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it? Addressing these and other key questions in palaeoanthropology and bioarchaeology, Simon Hillson examines the unique role of teeth in preserving detailed microscopic records of development throughout childhood
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The Neanderthal Legacy

An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe

by Paul A. Mellars ...

The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the ... Read more

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The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the
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Nature Remade

Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds

Edited by Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, Christian C. Young ...

Series series Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical approach, tracing cases across the decades of the long twentieth century. These essays span the many levels at which life has been engineered: molecule ... Read more

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“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical approach, tracing cases across the decades of the long twentieth century. These essays span the many levels at which life has been engineered: molecule
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Reincarnation: The Scientific Theory

by Michael Tewell ...

Ever wondered why you have those strange "waking dreams" just before you wake up in the morning? Those weird dreams that are just too vivid, too graphic, too "real" to be just ordinary dreams. They are the dreams that that take you back in time to a much different place than where you are now. They make you relive events that could not have possibly happened to you in THIS life. Still, the dreams ... Read more

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Ever wondered why you have those strange "waking dreams" just before you wake up in the morning? Those weird dreams that are just too vivid, too graphic, too "real" to be just ordinary dreams. They are the dreams that that take you back in time to a much different place than where you are now. They make you relive events that could not have possibly happened to you in THIS life. Still, the dreams
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Concealing Coloration in Animals

by Judy Diamond, Alan B. Bond ...

The biological functions of coloration in animals are sometimes surprising. Color can attract mates, intimidate enemies, and distract predators. But color patterns can also conceal animals from detection. Concealing coloration is unusual because it is an adaptation not only to the visual features of the environment but also to the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of other organisms. Judy ... Read more

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The biological functions of coloration in animals are sometimes surprising. Color can attract mates, intimidate enemies, and distract predators. But color patterns can also conceal animals from detection. Concealing coloration is unusual because it is an adaptation not only to the visual features of the environment but also to the perceptual and cognitive capabilities of other organisms. Judy
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The Evolution of Memory Systems

Ancestors, Anatomy, and Adaptations

by Elisabeth A. Murray, Steven P. Wise, Kim S. Graham ...

Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal experiments. This doctrine holds that the medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or declarative memories, while the basal ganglia subserves a separate memory system for implicit or procedural memories, including habits. Cortical areas outside the medial temporal lobe are said to function ... Read more

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Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal experiments. This doctrine holds that the medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or declarative memories, while the basal ganglia subserves a separate memory system for implicit or procedural memories, including habits. Cortical areas outside the medial temporal lobe are said to function
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Eternal Ephemera

Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond

by Niles Eldredge ...

All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species—interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"—are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral ... Read more

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All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species—interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"—are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral
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El origen de las especies

by Charles Darwin ...

Esta obra es un trabajo fundamental dentro de la historia de la ciencia y la biología. En él, Darwin argumenta largamente su teoría sobre cómo los organismos evolucionan gradualmente por medio de la selección natural, presentando evidencias de su teoría acumuladas en su viaje en el HMS Beagle en los años 1831-1836. Su teoría se oponía ampliamente a las teorías vigentes en su época, creacionismo y ... Read more

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Esta obra es un trabajo fundamental dentro de la historia de la ciencia y la biología. En él, Darwin argumenta largamente su teoría sobre cómo los organismos evolucionan gradualmente por medio de la selección natural, presentando evidencias de su teoría acumuladas en su viaje en el HMS Beagle en los años 1831-1836. Su teoría se oponía ampliamente a las teorías vigentes en su época, creacionismo y
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Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution

Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory

by Marion Blute ...

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social ... Read more

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Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social
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Genetics Demystified

by Edward Willett ...

Series series Demystified
There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjectsGenetics Demystified offers an up-to-date, highly readable explanation of the basic principles of genetics, covering key topics such as human genetics, DNA, heredity, mutations, traits, chromosomes, and much more. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of ... Read more

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There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjectsGenetics Demystified offers an up-to-date, highly readable explanation of the basic principles of genetics, covering key topics such as human genetics, DNA, heredity, mutations, traits, chromosomes, and much more. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of
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Charles Darwin

by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, Janet Browne ...

Series series Very Interesting People
Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

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Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of
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Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites

Second Edition

by Robert Poulin ...

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent years they have become a powerful model system for the study of ecology and evolution, with practical applications in disease prevention. Here, in a thoroughly revised and ... Read more

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Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent years they have become a powerful model system for the study of ecology and evolution, with practical applications in disease prevention. Here, in a thoroughly revised and
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Too Big to Walk

The New Science of Dinosaurs

by Brian J. Ford ...

Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought.In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of ... Read more

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Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought.In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of
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Darwin and Women

A Selection of Letters

by Charles Darwin ...

Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their friends that throw light on the lives of the women of his circle and their relationships, social and professional, with Darwin. The letters included are by turns entertaining, ... Read more

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Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of hitherto unpublished letters between members of Darwin's family and their friends that throw light on the lives of the women of his circle and their relationships, social and professional, with Darwin. The letters included are by turns entertaining,
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Sex in Cetaceans

Morphology, Behavior, and the Evolution of Sexual Strategies

Edited by Bernd Würsig, Dara N. Orbach ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales. This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical traits related to mating and diversity between the sexes. The functions of non-conceptive copulations are reviewed as are different research techniques applied to explore sex in ... Read more

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Sex in Cetaceans provides an up-to-date review of multi-faceted aspects related to mating and reproduction in toothed and baleen whales. This open access book begins with discussions of sexual selection and anatomical traits related to mating and diversity between the sexes. The functions of non-conceptive copulations are reviewed as are different research techniques applied to explore sex in
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The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics

Edited by Michael Ruse, Robert J. Richards ...

Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible ... Read more

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Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible
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Estuche La vida y la muerte contadas por un sapiens a un neandertal (De un sapiens a un neandertal)

by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga ...

Series series De un sapiens a un neandertal
El gran proyecto de Juan José Millás y Juan Luis Arsuaga sobre nuestra existencia en un estuche exclusivoLa vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal y La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal conforman un proyecto sin igual en el panorama literario actual.El paleontólogo Arsuaga y el escritor Millás se propusieron, hace ya más de dos años, levantar el gran relato sobre nuestra ... Read more

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El gran proyecto de Juan José Millás y Juan Luis Arsuaga sobre nuestra existencia en un estuche exclusivoLa vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal y La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal conforman un proyecto sin igual en el panorama literario actual.El paleontólogo Arsuaga y el escritor Millás se propusieron, hace ya más de dos años, levantar el gran relato sobre nuestra
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解密雙螺旋：DNA結構發現者華生的告白

The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix

by 華生 James D. Watson ...

Translated by 黃靜雅 ...

世紀之書《雙螺旋》圖文註釋版自達爾文《物種起源》以來，最重大的生物學事件。半世紀不衰的超級科學經典★ 1968年出版後，盤據《紐約時報》暢銷榜十六週，翻譯成二十多種語言賣出一百多萬冊★ 美國國會圖書館選為“塑造美國之書”（《塑造美國的書籍“）★ 流量，紐約公共圖書館選為“世紀之書”（世紀圖書）★ 流量，科學。史的現場重建；界科學遠比你想的更“叢林”★ 流量，加入圖片，註解，讓讀者彷彿親臨科學界的頂尖對決★ 連作者都不知道的史料，統統在這本《解密雙螺旋》◎ 周成功教授審訂1950年代，英，美三組科學家競逐解開DNA的謎題。當時初出茅廬的華生與克里克，率先提出DNA的雙螺旋結構，並因此獲得諾貝爾生理學或醫學獎。1968年，華生所著的超級經典-《雙螺旋》... ... Read more

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世紀之書《雙螺旋》圖文註釋版自達爾文《物種起源》以來，最重大的生物學事件。半世紀不衰的超級科學經典★ 1968年出版後，盤據《紐約時報》暢銷榜十六週，翻譯成二十多種語言賣出一百多萬冊★ 美國國會圖書館選為“塑造美國之書”（《塑造美國的書籍“）★ 流量，紐約公共圖書館選為“世紀之書”（世紀圖書）★ 流量，科學。史的現場重建；界科學遠比你想的更“叢林”★ 流量，加入圖片，註解，讓讀者彷彿親臨科學界的頂尖對決★ 連作者都不知道的史料，統統在這本《解密雙螺旋》◎ 周成功教授審訂1950年代，英，美三組科學家競逐解開DNA的謎題。當時初出茅廬的華生與克里克，率先提出DNA的雙螺旋結構，並因此獲得諾貝爾生理學或醫學獎。1968年，華生所著的超級經典-《雙螺旋》...
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Evolutionary Psychiatry

Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

Edited by Riadh Abed, Paul St John-Smith ...

Evolutionary psychiatry attempts to explain and examine the development and prevalence of psychiatric disorders through the lens of evolutionary and adaptationist theories. In this edited volume, leading international evolutionary scholars present a variety of Darwinian perspectives that will encourage readers to consider 'why' as well as 'how' mental disorders arise. Using insights from ... Read more

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Evolutionary psychiatry attempts to explain and examine the development and prevalence of psychiatric disorders through the lens of evolutionary and adaptationist theories. In this edited volume, leading international evolutionary scholars present a variety of Darwinian perspectives that will encourage readers to consider 'why' as well as 'how' mental disorders arise. Using insights from
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Was ist Leben?

Die fünf Antworten der Biologie

by Sir Paul Nurse ...

Translated by Hainer Kober ...

»Ein nahezu perfekter Führer durch die Wunder und Komplexität unserer Existenz.« Bill BrysonWas ist Leben? Und was bedeutet die Antwort auf diese Frage für die Herausforderungen, denen sich die Menschheit heute gegenübersieht – Klimawandel, Pandemien und Artensterben? Paul Nurse erhielt den Nobelpreis dafür, gezeigt zu haben, wie lebende Zellen funktionieren. In seinem so klar wie elegant ... Read more

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»Ein nahezu perfekter Führer durch die Wunder und Komplexität unserer Existenz.« Bill BrysonWas ist Leben? Und was bedeutet die Antwort auf diese Frage für die Herausforderungen, denen sich die Menschheit heute gegenübersieht – Klimawandel, Pandemien und Artensterben? Paul Nurse erhielt den Nobelpreis dafür, gezeigt zu haben, wie lebende Zellen funktionieren. In seinem so klar wie elegant
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Force of Nature

Understanding Evolution's Deepest Logic-and Putting It to Use

by Owen D. Jones ...

An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish.Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound—even, studies show, among medical ... Read more

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An eye-opening exploration of natural selection’s power and how it can help human society flourish.Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound—even, studies show, among medical
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Il mistero delle origini dell'uomo

Un viaggio nel tempo per comprendere chi siamo e dove stiamo andando

by Massimo Polidoro ...

Sin dall’inizio dei tempi, l’umanità ha tessuto leggende, creato cosmologie e formulato ipotesi scientifiche nel tentativo di capire da dove veniamo e dove siamo diretti. Indagare il mistero delle origini dell’uomo è un viaggio affascinante e multidisciplinare: dalle prime spiegazioni mitiche, passando per le rivoluzioni introdotte dalla teoria dell’evoluzione di Darwin, Massimo Polidoro ci ... Read more

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Sin dall’inizio dei tempi, l’umanità ha tessuto leggende, creato cosmologie e formulato ipotesi scientifiche nel tentativo di capire da dove veniamo e dove siamo diretti. Indagare il mistero delle origini dell’uomo è un viaggio affascinante e multidisciplinare: dalle prime spiegazioni mitiche, passando per le rivoluzioni introdotte dalla teoria dell’evoluzione di Darwin, Massimo Polidoro ci
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