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"Draws on Diamond's near five decades in New Guinea as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians and other cultures, exploring how tribal peoples approach essential human problems."
"Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature."
"Diamond reveals how tribal societies offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for millions of years -- until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms -- and provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature."@en
"Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday, in evolutionary time, when everything changed, and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. This book provides a firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years, a past that has mostly vanished, and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. The author does not romanticize traditional societies, after all, we are shocked by some of their practices, but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us."@en
"Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday, in evolutionary time, when everything changed, and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. This book provides a firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years, a past that has mostly vanished, and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. The author does not romanticize traditional societies, after all, we are shocked by some of their practices, but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us."
"Vergelijking tussen de levenswijzen in moderne samenlevingen en traditionele gemeenschappen."

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"The world until yesterday what can we learn from traditional societies ?"
"The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?"@en
"The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?"
"The world until yesterday what can we learn from traditional societies?"@en
"The world until yesterday what can we learn from traditional societies?"
"昨日世界 : 找回文明新命脈"
"Zuo ri shi jie : zhao hui wen ming xin ming mai : ren lei da li shi san bu qu zhi zui zhong qu"
"The world until yesterday. What can we learn from traditional societies?"@en
"昨日世界 : 找回文明新命脈 : 人類大歷史三部曲之最終曲"
"Zuo ri shi jie : zhao hui wen ming xin ming mai"
"Le monde jusqu'à hier : ce que nous apprennent les sociétés traditionnelles"

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