關於古人類學,推薦今年(2021年)出版的The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins,作者是牛津大學和維也納大學的考古學教授Tom Higham。這本書介紹了迄今為止科學技術的進步(放射性碳測年、古DNA等)促成的關於人類史前史的重大發現。
章節目錄:
1. Introduction
2. Out of Africa
3. Neanderthals Emerge into the Light
4. The Road to Denisova Cave
5. The Genetic Revolution
6. A New Species of Human
7. Where are the Fossil Remains?
8. Finding Needles in Haystacks
9. The Science of ‘When’
10. On the Trail of the Modern Human Diaspora
11. DNA from Dirt
12. The Hobbits
13. The Journey to the East of Wallace’s Line
14. Homo erectus and the Ghost Population
15. Disappearing from the World
16. Our Genetic Legacy
17. The World Before Us
關於古DNA與人類歷史,推薦2018年出版的Who We Are and How We Got Here,作者是哈佛大學教授、遺傳學家David Reich。這是考古遺傳學領域的開創性著作,介紹了古DNA如何深刻改變我們對人類歷史的認知。此書已有中文譯本《人類起源的故事》。
章節目錄:
Part I The Deep History of Our Species
1 How the Genome Explains Who We Are
2 Encounters with Neanderthals
3 Ancient DNA Opens the Floodgates
Part II How We Got to Where We Are Today
4 Humanity’s Ghosts
5 The Making of Modern Europe
6 The Collision That Formed India
7 In Search of Native American Ancestors
8 The Genomic Origins of East Asians
9 Rejoining Africa to the Human Story
Part III The Disruptive Genome
10 The Genomics of Inequality
11 The Genomics of Race and Identity
12 The Future of Ancient DNA
關於古人類DNA的研究,推薦2014年出版的Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes,作者是德國馬克斯·普朗克進化人類學研究所教授、演化遺傳學家Svante Pääbo。這本書介紹了作者對尼安德特人DNA的研究歷程,更像是一本科研自傳。此書已有中文譯本《尼安德特人》。
章節目錄:
Chapter 1 Neanderthal ex Machina 1
Chapter 2 Mummies and Molecules 23
Chapter 3 Amplifying the Past 37
Chapter 4 Dinosaurs in the Lab 49
Chapter 5 Human Frustrations 63
Chapter 6 A Croatian Connection 75
Chapter 7 A New Home 81
Chapter 8 Multiregional Controversies 91
Chapter 9 Nuclear Tests 99
Chapter 10 Going Nuclear 105
Chapter 11 Starting the Genome Project 117
Chapter 12 Hard Bones 129
Chapter 13 The Devil in the Details 143
Chapter 14 Mapping the Genome 153
Chapter 15 From Bones to Genome 159
Chapter 16 Gene Flow? 169
Chapter 17 First Insights 179
Chapter 18 Gene Flow! 185
Chapter 19 The Replacement Crowd 197
Chapter 20 Human Essence? 205
Chapter 21 Publishing the Genome 215
Chapter 22 A Very Unusual Finger 227
Chapter 23 A Neanderthal Relative 239