书目名称 | Human-Earth System Dynamics |
副标题 | Implications to Civi |
编辑 | Rongxing Guo |
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概述 | Argues that existing textbooks and relevant monographs on anthropology and history have presented incomplete and sometimes misleading descriptions of how mankind has advanced from the hunter-gatherer |
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描述 | This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually based. It also resurrects a number of common ancestral terms to help readers understand the complicated process of human and cultural evolution around the globe. Specifically, in almost all indigenous languages, the words ‘wa’ and any variants of it were originally associated with the sound of crying of – and certainly were selected as the common ancestral word with the meanings of “house, home, homeland, motherland, and so on” by – early humans living in different parts of the world..This book provides many neglected but still crucial environmental and biological clues about the rise and fall of civilizations – ones that have largely resulted from mankind’s long-lasting “Win-Stay Lose-Shift” games throughout the world. The narratives and findings presented at this book are unexpected but reasonable – and are what every student of anthropology or history needs to know and doesn‘t get in th |
出版日期 | Book 2019 |
关键词 | Human evolution; Civilization; Environmental threat; Global history; River valley; Human Thermodynamics; R |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0547-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-13-4447-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-13-0547-4 |
copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 |