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內容簡介 借鑑社會科學、進化生物學、遺傳學、神經科學和網路科學的進步，社會科學家Nicholas Christakis揭示演化如何帶領人類走向良善的人性道路，以及透過共同的人性相互團結長久以來，科學家們一直關注於生物傳承的黑暗面：人類的侵略性、殘忍、偏見和自身利益等能力。但自然選擇為人們提供一系列有益的社交功能，包括愛人的能力、發展友誼、相互合作和學習力等。從人類的發明中，例如工具、農業、機械、城市和國家，我們帶著先天的生活方式來創造一個更美好的社會。社會學家Nicholas A. Christakis在本書引入令人信服的全新觀點，人類基因不僅影響身體和行為發展，還會影響我們如何建立社會，而這些社會在世界各地都非常相似。他列舉許多生動的案例，包括多元的歷史和當代文化、沈船事故後所形成的社區、尋求烏托邦的公社居民、透過人工智慧或設計拼湊而成的網路群組，甚至如同人類的大象和海豚溫柔而複雜的社會制度等，儘管人類歷史充滿暴力，但我們皆無法逃避與生俱有善良的社會藍圖。Drawing on advances in social science, evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience, and network science, Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity.For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions -- our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations -- we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.In Blueprint, Nicholas A. Christakis introduces the compelling idea that our genes affect not only our bodies and behaviors, but also the ways in which we make societies, ones that are surprisingly similar worldwide. With many vivid examples -- including diverse historical and contemporary cultures, communities formed in the wake of shipwrecks, commune dwellers seeking utopia, online groups thrown together by design or involving artificially intelligent bots, and even the tender and complex social arrangements of elephants and dolphins that so resemble our own -- Christakis shows that, despite a human history replete with violence, we cannot escape our social blueprint for goodness.In a world of increasing political and economic polarization, it's tempting to ignore the positive role of our evolutionary past. But by exploring the ancient roots of goodness in civilization, Blueprint shows that our genes have shaped societies for our welfare and that, in a feedback loop stretching back many thousands of years, societies have shaped, and are still shaping, our genes today.
