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在这本令人称奇、诙谐幽默且极具教育意义的书中，科学作家汉娜·霍姆斯熟练地将个人的经历和思考与最新的科学理论和研究成果相结合，把自己打造成为一名见闻广博的科学导游，引领读者了解灵长类动物中最怪异且最迷人的一种，即人类自己。作者比较了人类与其他动物的生物性和行为，说明人类同其他动物一样，来自并遵从相同的进化过程。人类不仅是动物，在某些重要方面（如嗅觉和视觉），甚至远不如其他很多动物。因此，这样的动物能生存下来的可能性原本很小，而其生存和繁衍，更是一个非凡的奇迹。同时，作者也揭示出，尽管人类与其他动物具有很多共同点， 但是，没有其他哪种动物具有像人类那样的自我思考能力，能够面对自然界的挑战，制造出无数工具，改变自身或其环境，给地球村带来了翻天覆地的变化。读完这本书，你便会明了身为人类的意义。

Hannah Holmes (born 1963) is an American writer, journalist, essayist, and science commentator for Science Live (Discovery Channel) and radio shows such as Maine Things Considered. She has published four books, most recently Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality (Random House, 2011). She has published articles online and in magazines including Sierra, Ne...

Hannah Holmes (born 1963) is an American writer, journalist, essayist, and science commentator for Science Live (Discovery Channel) and radio shows such as Maine Things Considered. She has published four books, most recently Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality (Random House, 2011). She has published articles online and in magazines including Sierra, New York Times Magazine, L.A.Times Magazine, Outside, Islands, and Escape. She earned a B.A. from University of Southern Maine in 1988, and lives with her husband in Portland, Maine.

www.hannahholmes.net/