2.《人类简史》Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind

In the writing of the author, Professor Yuval Heraly, the whole process of mankind's journey from animals to God is summarised in three great revolutions: the cognitive revolution 70,000 years ago, the agricultural revolution 12,000 years ago and the scientific revolution that began 500 years ago and continues to the present. These three revolutions are an important narrative framework in this book, and you must remember them if you want to pretend to others that you have read a brief history of humanity. The Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution and the Scientific Revolution. Let's just go down the list bit by bit.
Around 2.5 million years ago, our earliest human ancestors appeared on Earth, called the Southern Archaeopteryx. They started evolving in East Africa and then they said the world is so big, I want to see it, and as a result they gradually migrated around the world. Some went to North Africa, some went to Asia, some went to Indonesia, and so on. Over the next 500,000 years or so, due to geological, climatic and natural conditions, the southern apes evolved into several very different human species. The Neanderthals of Europe and West Asia, the Homo erectus of East Asia, the Solo man of Indonesia, the Denisovans of Siberia, and the Rudolphs and smiths of East Africa are all supporting characters in the history of human evolution, so just listen. Then there is the last of these, the ancestors of our current global human race, Homo sapiens. They lived in East Africa. Once upon a time a female ape gave birth to two daughters, one of whom is the ancestor of all chimpanzees, and the other of all of us humans. So we are considered full siblings to the chimpanzees, whereas all other humans are cousins or first cousins. The difference between chimpanzees and us then is that chimpanzees put all their talent points from character creation into Strength, while we put all our talent points into Intelligence. We humans are deeply obsessed with our own high intelligence and are hell-bent on thinking that the higher the intelligence the better. But other animals have evolved over millions of years, and if adding intelligence is really that good, then why haven't there been cats that can calculate or dogs that can program? Why is it that in the whole of nature only humans have evolved thinking organs of such vast proportions?
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在作者尤瓦尔赫拉利教授的笔下，人类从动物到上帝的整个过程被总结成为了三次伟大的革命，分别是七万年前的认知革命、一万两千年前农业革命和500年前开始一直持续到现在的科学革命。这三次革命是本书中重要的叙述框架，如果你要在别人面前装13说看过人类简史的话，一定要记得这三次革命。认知革命、农业革命和科学革命。我们就一点一点的顺着往下说。
大概在250万年前的时候，我们人类最早的祖先出现在了地球上，叫做南方古猿。他们从东非开始演化，后来他们说世界这么大，我想去看看，结果就逐渐的迁徙到了世界各地。有的去了北非、有的去了亚洲、有的呢去了印度尼西亚等等。大约又过了50万年因为地缘气候和自然条件的影响南方古猿演化出了几种差别很大的人种。欧洲和西亚地区的叫做尼安德特人、东亚的叫做直立人、印度尼西亚的梭罗人、西伯利亚的丹尼索瓦人、还有东非的鲁道夫人和匠人，这些都是人类演化史上的配角，听听就可以了。还有最后一种就是我们现在全球人类的祖先，智人。他们生活在东非。从前有一只母猿生下了两个女儿，一个呢是所有黑猩猩的祖先，另一个呢是我们所有人类的祖先。所以我们和黑猩猩算是亲兄妹，而其他的人类都是堂兄妹或者表兄妹。那么黑猩猩和我们的区别就是猩猩把创建角色后的天赋点数全部点到了力量上，而我们则把所有的天赋点数全加到了智力上。我们人类深深的迷恋着我们自己的高智商，于是一心认为智力越高越好。但是，其他的动物也是经过几百万年的演化而来，如果加智力真的那么好的话，那为什么没有出现会微积分的猫或者会编程的狗呢？为什么在整个自然界只有人类演化出了比例这么庞大的思考器官？