The Great Separation: the Fate of the Old and New Continents (translator Lin's History of Thought)
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From the time when ancient ancestors entered the American continent 15,000 BC to the discovery of the New World by Columbus in 1492 AD, a great unknown experiment occurred in human history. During this period, human ancestors in the New and Old Worlds lived in time and space isolated from each other. Facing different geography, climate, and animal and plant communities, they each developed completely different human natures, ideas, and societies. "The Great Separation" is a cutting-edge work by British intellectual history scholar Peter Watson that explores human history and destiny. Watson draws on recent achievements in anthropology, archaeology, mythology, biology, and ethics to discuss the different potentials of human nature realized in different environments, and also presents a comprehensive picture of the different destinies of human societies in the New and Old Worlds. This book explores many major historical variables that affect human society, and synthesizes a set of evolutionary frameworks for human life, customs, and ideas. Whether it is the structure of the continent and the animal and plant resources available for domestication, or the climate patterns and the abnormal distribution of hallucinogens, they have had a profound impact on human social forms, living customs, religious beliefs, and language structures, forming the ideological foundation of our current society.
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