Hubris: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Humanity

Krause, Johannes, Trappe, Thomas, Howe, Sharon

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-03
  • 售價: $1,230
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,169
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 264
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1509562613
  • ISBN-13: 9781509562619
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商品描述

Humans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we can travel into space, cure diseases and decode the fundamentals of life and, at the same time, find ourselves faced with an existential crisis that threatens to overwhelm us? What lies behind this uncharacteristic failure to master the most important challenge of our existence?

In this compelling book, the leading archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause and journalist Thomas Trappe investigate what DNA can tell us about how we got to where we are and what our future might be. They show how the first humans were defeated again and again and suffered fatal setbacks, and how Homo sapiens succeeded in conquering continents, overcoming natural borders and bringing other species under their control. But the genetic blueprint that enabled us to get to where we are today had one flaw: it didn't factor in planetary boundaries. Now that we are approaching those boundaries for the first time after millions of years of evolution, an urgent question arises: can we learn to live within the available planetary limits, or are we doomed by our DNA to continue to expand, consume, and absorb the resources around us to the point of exhaustion, consigning ourselves and other species to extinction? Has our seemingly unstoppable rise met its ultimate end?

While the looming climate crisis does not augur well for humanity's capacity to adapt to the new situation in which we find ourselves, we are not at the mercy of our DNA - or, at least, we don't have to be. But can we harness the lessons of the past to survive the present?

商品描述(中文翻譯)

人類是這個星球上最智慧的生物。然而,我們如何能夠進入太空、治癒疾病並解碼生命的基本原則,同時又面臨著一場威脅我們的生存危機?這種無法掌握我們存在中最重要挑戰的異常失敗背後隱藏著什麼?

在這本引人入勝的書中,領先的考古基因學家約翰內斯·克勞斯(Johannes Krause)和記者托馬斯·特拉佩(Thomas Trappe)探討了DNA能告訴我們什麼,關於我們如何走到今天以及未來可能會是什麼樣子。他們展示了最早的人類是如何一次又一次地被擊敗,遭受致命的挫折,以及智人(Homo sapiens)如何成功征服大陸,克服自然邊界,並將其他物種納入其控制之下。然而,讓我們能夠走到今天的基因藍圖卻有一個缺陷:它沒有考慮到行星的界限。現在,經過數百萬年的演化,我們首次接近這些界限,一個緊迫的問題浮現:我們能否學會在可用的行星限制內生活,還是我們注定要因DNA的驅使而不斷擴張、消耗並吸收周圍的資源,直到耗盡,將自己和其他物種推向滅絕?我們看似無法阻擋的崛起是否已經走到了終點?

儘管迫在眉睫的氣候危機對人類適應我們所處的新情況並不樂觀,但我們並不必然受制於我們的DNA——或者至少,我們不必如此。但我們能否利用過去的教訓來生存於當前的現實中?

作者簡介

Johannes Krause is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Thomas Trappe is a senior editor at the Berlin-based Tagesspiegel, specializing in science and healthcare.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Johannes Krause 是德國萊比錫馬克斯·普朗克進化人類學研究所的所長。

Thomas Trappe 是位於柏林的《每日鏡報》的資深編輯,專注於科學和醫療保健領域。