當游牧的智人定居在一個地方后，他們開始越來越努力地工作。但為什么他們沒有得到更好的生活作為回報?
When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return?
在《文明的支柱》中，尤瓦爾·諾亞·哈拉里和他的同伴，包括薩拉瓦蒂教授和虛構(gòu)博士，穿越了人類歷史的長度和廣度，調(diào)查農(nóng)業(yè)革命如何永遠地改變了社會。探索小麥是如何主宰世界的，戰(zhàn)爭、饑荒、疾病和不平等是如何成為人類生活的一部分的，以及為什么我們可能只能怪自己。
In The Pillars of Civilization, Yuval Noah Harari and his companions including Prof. Saraswati and Dr. Fiction travel the length and breadth of human history to investigate how the Agricultural Revolution changed society forever. Discover how wheat took over the world, how war, famine, disease and inequality became a part of the human condition, and why we might only have ourselves to blame.
現(xiàn)代農(nóng)業(yè)的起源通過伊麗莎白時代的悲劇講述，馴化植物和動物的命運變化在《每日商業(yè)新聞》的專欄中被追蹤，不平等的歷史在一個超級英雄偵探故事中被揭示。
The origins of modern farming are told through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, and the history of inequality is revealed in a superhero detective story.
