Spencer Wells (1) (1969–)
Teoksen The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey tekijä
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Associated Works
The Human Family Tree: Tracing the Human Journey Through Time [2009 Documentary film] (2009) — Host — 9 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Wells, Spencer
- Syntymäaika
- 1969-04-06
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Marietta, Georgia, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Washington, D.C., USA
Lubbock, Texas, USA
East Anglia, England, UK - Koulutus
- University of Texas, Austin
Harvard University
Stanford University
Oxford University - Ammatit
- Population geneticist
- Suhteet
- Wells, Pamela Caragol (wife)
Wells, Margot (daughter)
Wells, Sasha (daughter) - Organisaatiot
- Oxford University
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Cornell University
The Genographic Project - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Kistler Prize (2004)
- Agentti
- Clare Alexander
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
I would give this 2.5 stars.
Some new stuff, lots of old stuff and rather a lot of vagueness. I still have no clue why the hunter-gatherer hold the key to our survival.
Edit: Grandma like this book a lot.
Some new stuff, lots of old stuff and rather a lot of vagueness. I still have no clue why the hunter-gatherer hold the key to our survival.
Edit: Grandma like this book a lot.
The author suggests that civilization is the problem not the solution. He offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited.
Pandora’s Seed, while containing all the essential ingredients to make me giddy - Natufians, evolutionary history, the rise and fall of empires - never quite congealed into a focused or inventive text. Because of its breadth, it skipped quickly between topics without any of the depth and insight that a reader expects from an expert-in-his-field like Spencer Wells. The overall effect of such a scatter-shot tour of the agriculture revolution, is that of a mash-up of the works other more inspired texts of authors such as Jared Diamond, Michael Pollan and Karen Armstrong. Still though - Natufians!… (lisätietoja)
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What he said was very good, but didn't hang together.