骨骼的秘密生活 英文原版 Skeleton Keys The Secret Life of Bone
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作者Brian Switek
出版社Riverhead Books
ISBN9780525539124
出版时间2020-03
印刷时间2020-03
印数1千册
装帧平装
开本32开
纸张轻型纸
页数288页
字数1千字
定价138元
上书时间2024-10-22
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (March 3, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525539123
ISBN-13: 978-0525539124
Product Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 23mm | 249g
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书籍简介
《骨骼的秘密生活》从不同的视角考察人体的200多块骨头。既然斯威泰克是古生物学家，所以本书一开始先追溯不同的骨骼结构的远古源头，从脊椎动物的祖先——纤细皮卡虫说起。他形容说，“人体骨骼的排列是与演化时间交织在一起的镶嵌图案”。人体骨骼是怎么演化的呢？他深入浅出地一步步描述了骨头、下颌、耳朵等等的演化发育过程，并指出，在进化史上的“任何一个时刻都不能说，此时的人体已经是典型的人体了”。在这一部分，作者还叙述了人类已失去的一些骨骼特征，如眼骨。
本书有不少与骨骼相关的趣味性内容。比如，他用整整一章的篇幅告诉读者，英格兰国王（1452—1485年）理查三世的骸骨是怎么确认的。据史料记载，理查三世战死后，尸体曾被裸体示众，最后葬在莱斯特的一个圣方济会教堂中。后来，随着亨利八世上台与宗教改革的推行，英国许多修道院都被夷为平地，理查三世墓穴的确切位置再也无人知晓。2013年，莱斯特大学的研究人员召开新闻发布会宣布，经过DNA鉴定（同理查三世一名亲戚的后代的DNA进行比对）和历史考证，证实在某停车场发现的骨头就是理查三世的骸骨。这具骸骨有10处创伤，8处在头颅，两处在身体上。
又如，斯威泰克还讲述了在现代社会，人类遗体的交易是怎么进行的。他强调说，科学发展也有负面作用，例如，由于人类学的进步和普及，人们处理遗体时不再像前人那样怀着敬畏之心，而有点肆无忌惮。他讲述了Kennewick Man（肯纳威克人）史前遗骨所有权案，这场官司从1996年到2004年打了9年。官司所涉的遗骨保存在华盛顿大学伯克博物馆。美国5个原住民部落组成的联盟声称，该遗骨为其祖先的遗骨，应予归还；8位人类学家则抗辩说，不应归还。法院最后驳回部落联盟的诉求，认为其提供的证据不足以证明此遗骨是其祖先的遗骨。在书中，斯威泰克还回顾了颅相学这门伪科学是如何为种族主义助威的。
在本书的最后，从小酷爱化石的斯威泰克想象了一下，他本人可以如何被处理成化石。这种将事实和伦理思考相结合的思辨，可以给读者带来绵长、广阔的反思空间。
Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.
“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal
Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.
Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you, an undeniable document of who you are and how you lived. Arguably, no other part of the human anatomy has such rich scientific and cultural significance, both brimming with life and a potent symbol of death.
In this delightful natural and cultural history of bone, Brian Switek explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can learn about us when these artifacts of mineral and protein are all we've left behind.
Bone is as embedded in our culture as it is in our bodies. Our species has made instruments and jewelry from bone, treated the dead like collectors' items, put our faith in skull bumps as guides to human behavior, and arranged skeletons into macabre tributes to the afterlife. Switek makes a compelling case for getting better acquainted with our skeletons, in all their surprising roles. Bridging the worlds of paleontology, anthropology, medicine, and forensics, Skeleton Keys illuminates the complex life of bones inside our bodies and out.
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“I sit here now crossing my extraordinary kneecaps... I can see them better thanks to Switek’s keys.” —Rose George, The New York Times Book Review
“Smart, lively, and hugely informative, Skeleton Keys is the ideal guide to the bones around us and in us.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
“A thoughtful, engaging meditation on the origins of the human skeleton, how it functions (or malfunctions) and how we come to terms with our essential but unsettling osseous framework.” —Nature
“Brian Switek writes with remarkable grace about the natural world. In Skeleton Keys, he looks inward, making us keenly aware of the marvels of the bones that give us the scaffolding we need to survive. Every chapter has some surprise, told in elegant tales, that you will repeat to your friends.” —Carl Zimmer, author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
“[Switek] compellingly evokes the sheer wonder and complexity of the supporting framework inside you—and the murky human responses it arouses.” —Science
“From touring the famed Mutter Museum and London ossuaries, to ferreting out what really happened to Richard III, Skeleton Keys is a lyrical love letter to the 206 or so bones in the human skeleton and the colorful figures who have studied them over the centuries.”—Jennifer Ouellette, author of Me, Myself, and Why and The Calculus Diaries
“Skeleton Keys is an absorbing tour through the world of bones and the bones of the world. Considering in turn dinosaurs, saints, kings, and our own possible future, it is an assured and revelatory book.” —Maryn McKenna, author of Big Chicken and Superbug
“A cheerful popular-science romp through the matter that makes up our skeleton.... leaves the beaten path to deliver a fun explanation of the history, function, and cultural meaning of bone.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Informative, contemplative, and even lyrical, Switek’s work is popular-science writing at its best.” —Booklist
作者简介
布瑞恩·斯威泰克，作家兼业余古生物学家。《科学美国人》《美国国家地理》撰稿人，《科学美国人》杂志网站专栏博客的博主。
Brian Switek is the pen name of Riley Black, a collection of 206-some-odd bones and associated soft tissues. She is also the author of the books My Beloved Brontosaurus and Written in Stone, as well as the Scientific American blog Laelaps. Her bylines have appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Wired, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and other publications. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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