Spencer Wells (1) (1969–)
Autor(a) de The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
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Obras por Spencer Wells
Associated Works
The Human Family Tree: Tracing the Human Journey Through Time [2009 Documentary film] (2009) — Host — 9 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Wells, Spencer
- Data de nascimento
- 1969-04-06
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Marietta, Georgia, USA
- Locais de residência
- Washington, D.C., USA
Lubbock, Texas, USA
East Anglia, England, UK - Educação
- University of Texas, Austin
Harvard University
Stanford University
Oxford University - Ocupações
- Population geneticist
- Relações
- Wells, Pamela Caragol (wife)
Wells, Margot (daughter)
Wells, Sasha (daughter) - Organizações
- Oxford University
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Cornell University
The Genographic Project - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Kistler Prize (2004)
- Agente
- Clare Alexander
Membros
Críticas
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!… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 1,381
- Popularidade
- #18,624
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 38
- ISBN
- 34
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 3
What he said was very good, but didn't hang together.