地图

1. 智人征服全球。

2. 农业革命的时间和地点。

3. 公元1450年的地球。

4. 基督教和伊斯兰教的传播。

5. 佛教的传播。

6. 西班牙入侵时的阿兹特克和印加帝国。

1. 雪维洞穴的人类手印。? Imagebank/Gettyimages Israel

2. 鲁道夫人、直立人和尼安德特人的现代样貌重建图。? Visual/Corbis

3. 尼安德特男孩样貌重建图。?Anthro- pologisches Institut und Museum, Universit?t Zürich

4. 德国施泰德洞穴的象牙制“狮人”（或女狮子）雕像。Photo Thomas Stephan, ? Ulmer Museum

5. 标致的狮子商标。Photo: Itzik Yahav

6. 以色列北部一座12000年前的墓穴，有一具年约50岁女性的骨骸，旁边还有一副小狗的骨骸。Photo:The Prehistoric Man Museum, Kibbutz Ma’ayan Baruch

7. 拉斯科洞穴大约15000~20000年前的一幅壁画。? Visual/Corbis

8. 阿根廷“手洞”大约公元前7000年的手印。? Visual/Corbis

9. 埃及墓穴壁画，描绘典型的农业景象。? Visual/Corbis

10. 哥贝克力石阵的巨大结构遗迹。Photographs by Deutsches Arch?o-logisches Institut ?

11. 公元前1200年的埃及坟墓壁画：有一对牛在耕田。 ? Visual/Corbis

12. 一头现代的牛。Photo: Anonymous for Animal Rights ?

13. 来自古城乌鲁克（Uruk）大约公元前3400~3000年的泥板，记载着当时的行政文书。? The Sch?yen Collection, Oslo and London, MS 1717. http://www.schoyencollection.com/

14.12世纪的安第斯文化结绳语。? The Sch?yen Collection, Oslo and London, MS 718. http://www.schoyencollection.com/

15. 法国国王路易十四王室肖像。? Réunion des musées nationaux / Gérard Blot.

16. 美国总统奥巴马官方照片。? Visual/Corbis

17. 朝圣者绕行着位于麦加圣寺内的卡巴圣堂。 ? Visual/Corbis

18. 孟买的贾特拉帕蒂·希瓦吉火车站。Photograph by fish-bone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_Terminus,_Mumbai.jpg

19. 泰姬玛哈陵。Photo: Guy Gelbgisser Asia Tours.

20. 一幅纳粹的宣传海报。Library of Congress, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Roland Klemig ?

21. 一幅纳粹的漫画。Photograph by Boaz Neumann. From Kladderadatsch 49 (1933), p. 7.

22. 新墨西哥阿拉莫戈多，1945年7月16日，早上5点29分53秒。? Visual/Corbis

23. 1459年欧洲人的世界地图。? British Library Board, Shelfmark Add. 11267.

24. 1525年的萨尔瓦提世界地图。? Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Laur. Med. Palat. 249 (mappa Salviati)

25. 商业化养鸡场输送带上的小鸡。Photo: Anonymous for Animal Rights ?

26. 哈洛实验。? Photo Researchers / Visualphotos.com

27. 在这只老鼠背上，科学家用牛软骨细胞让它长出一只“耳朵”。Photograph by Charles Vacanti ?

28. 杰西·沙利文和克劳迪亚·米切尔握手。? Imagebank/Gettyimages Israel

尾注

1 Ann Gibbons, ‘Food for Thought: Did the First Cooked Meals Help Fuel the Dramatic Evolutionary Expansion of the Human Brain?’, Science 316:5831 (2007), 1558-1560.

2 Robin Dunber, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).

3 Michael L. Wilson and Richard W. Wrangham, ‘Intergroup Relations in Chimpanzees’, Annual Review of Anthropology 32 (2003), 363-392; M. McFarland Symington, ‘Fission-Fusion Social Organization in Ateles and Pan’, International Journal of Primatology, 11:1 (1990), 49; Colin A. Chapman and Lauren J. Chapman, ‘Determinants of Groups Size in Primates: The Importance of Travel Costs’, in On the Move: How and Why Animals Travel in Groups, ed. Sue Boinsky and Paul A. Garber (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 26.

4 Dunbar, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language, 69-79; Leslie C. Aiello and R. I. M. Dunbar, ‘Neocortex Size, Group Size, and the Evolution of Language’, Current Anthropology 34:2 (1993), 189. For criticism of this approach see: Christopher McCarthy et al., ‘Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size’, Human Organization 60:1 (2001), 32; R. A. Hill and R. I. M. Dunbar, ‘Social Network Size in Humans’, Human Nature 14:1 (2003), 65.

5 Yvette Taborin, ‘Shells of the French Aurignacian and Perigordian’, in Before Lascaux: The Complete Record of the Early Upper Paleolithic, ed. Heidi Knecht, Anne Pike-Tay and Randall White (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1993), 211-28.

6 G.R. Summerhayes, ‘Application of PIXE-PIGME to Archaeological Analysis of Changing Patterns of Obsidian Use in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea’, in Archaeological Obsidian Studies: Method and Theory, ed. Steven M. Shackley (New York: Plenum Press, 1998), 129-58.

7 Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (New York: Harper, 2010); S. Beckerman and P. Valentine (eds.), Cultures of Multiple Fathers: The Theory and Practice of Partible Paternity in Lowland South America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002).

8 Noel G. Butlin, Economics and the Dreamtime: A Hypothetical History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 98-101; Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians (Sydney: Allen & Unwin , 2002), 15; William Howell Edwards, An Introduction to Aboriginal Societies (Wentworth Falls, N.S.W.: Social Science Press, 1988), 52.

9 Fekri A. Hassan, Demographic Archaeology (New York: Academic Press, 1981), 196-99; Lewis Robert Binford, Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter Gatherer and Environmental Data Sets (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 143.

10 Brian Hare, The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think (Dutton: Penguin Group, 2013).

11 Christopher B. Ruff, Erik Trinkaus and Trenton W. Holliday, ‘Body Mass and Encephalization in Pleistocene Homo’, Nature 387 (1997), 173-176; M. Henneberg and M. Steyn, ‘Trends in Cranial Capacity and Cranial Index in Subsaharan Africa During the Holocene’, American Journal of Human Biology 5:4 (1993): 473-79; Drew H. Bailey and David C. Geary, ‘Hominid Brain Evolution: Testing Climatic, Ecological, and Social Competition Models’, Human Nature 20 (2009): 67-79; Daniel J. Wescott and Richard L. Jantz, ‘Assessing Craniofacial Secular Change in American Blacks and Whites Using Geometric Morphometry’, in Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, ed. Dennis E. Slice (New York: Plenum Publishers, 2005), 231-45.

12 Nicholas G. Blurton Jones et al., ‘Antiquity of Postreproductive Life: Are There Modern Impact on Hunter-Gatherer Postreproductive Life Spans?’, American Journal of Human Biology 14 (2002), 184-205.

13 Kim Hill and A. Magdalena Hurtado, Aché Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1996), 164, 236.

14 Hill and Hurtado, Aché Life History, 78.

15 Vincenzo Formicola and Alexandra P. Buzhilova, ‘Double Child Burial from Sunghir (Russia): Pathology and Inferences for Upper Paleolithic Funerary Practices’, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124:3 (2004), 189-98; Giacomo Giacobini, ‘Richness and Diversity of Burial Rituals in the Upper Paleolithic’, Diogenes 54:2 (2007), 19-39.

16 I. J. N. Thorpe, ‘Anthropology, Archaeology, and the Origin of Warfare’, World Archaology 35:1 (2003), 145-65; Raymond C. Kelly, Warless Societies and the Origin of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000); Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006); Lawrence H. Keeley, War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); Slavomil Vencl, ‘Stone Age Warfare’, in Ancient Warfare: Archaeological Perspectives, ed. John Carman and Anthony Harding (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999), 57-73.

17 James F. O’Connel and Jim Allen, ‘Pre-LGM Sahul (Pleistocene Australia – New Guinea) and the Archeology of Early Modern Humans’, in Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans, ed. Paul Mellars, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Katie Boyle (Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2007), 395-410; James F. O’Connel and Jim Allen, ‘When Did Humans First Arrived in Grater Australia and Why Is It Important to Know?’, Evolutionary Anthropology, 6:4 (1998), 132-46; James F. O’Connel and Jim Allen, ‘Dating the Colonization of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia – New Guinea): A Review of Recent Research’, Journal of Radiological Science 31:6 (2004), 835-53; Jon M. Erlandson, ‘Anatomically Modern Humans, Maritime Voyaging, and the Pleistocene Colonization of the Americas’, in The first Americans: the Pleistocene Colonization of the New World, ed. Nina G. Jablonski (San Francisco: University of California Press, 2002), 59-60, 63-64; Jon M. Erlandson and Torben C. Rick, ‘Archeology Meets Marine Ecology: The Antiquity of Maritime Cultures and Human Impacts on Marine Fisheries and Ecosystems’, Annual Review of Marine Science 2 (2010), 231-51; Atholl Anderson, ‘Slow Boats from China: Issues in the Prehistory of Indo-China Seafaring’, Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, 16 (2000), 13- 50; Robert G. Bednarik, ‘Maritime Navigation in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic’, Earth and Planetary Sciences 328 (1999), 559-60; Robert G. Bednarik, ‘Seafaring in the Pleistocene’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 13:1 (2003), 41-66.

18 Timothy F. Flannery, The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the  Australasian Lands and Peoples (Port Melbourne, Vic.: Reed Books  Australia, 1994); Anthony D. Barnosky et al., ‘Assessing the Causes of  Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents’, Science 306:5693  (2004): 70–75; Bary W. Brook and David M. J. S. Bowman, ‘The Uncertain  Blitzkrieg of Pleistocene Megafauna’, Journal of Biogeography 31:4  (2004), 517–23; Gifford H. Miller et al., ‘Ecosystem Collapse in  Pleistocene Australia and a Human Role in Megafaunal Extinction,’  Science 309:5732 (2005), 287–90; Richard G. Roberts et al., ‘New Ages  for the Last Australian Megafauna: Continent Wide Extinction about  46,000 Years Ago’, Science 292:5523 (2001), 1888–92.

19 Stephen Wroe and Judith Field, ‘A Review of Evidence for a Human Role  in the Extinction of Australian Megafauna and an Alternative  Explanation’, Quaternary Science Reviews 25:21–22 (2006), 2692–2703;  Barry W. Brooks et al., ‘Would the Australian Megafauna Have Become  Extinct If Humans Had Never Colonised the Continent? Comments on ‘‘A  Review of the Evidence for a Human Role in the Extinction of Australian  Megafauna and an Alternative Explanation’’ by S. Wroe and J. Field’,  Quaternary Science Reviews 26:3-4 (2007), 560-564; Chris S. M. Turney et  al., ‘Late-Surviving Megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, Implicate Human  Involvement in their Extinction’, Proceedings of the National Academy of  Sciences 105:34 (2008), 12150-53.

20 John Alroy, ‘A Multispecies Overkill Simulation of the  End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Mass Extinction’, Science, 292:5523 (2001),  1893-96; O’Connel and Allen, ‘Pre-LGM Sahul’, 400-1.

21 L.H. Keeley, ‘Proto-Agricultural Practices Among Hunter-Gatherers: A  Cross- Cultural Survey’, in Last Hunters, First Farmers: New  Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture, ed. T.  Douglas Price and Anne Birgitte Gebauer (Santa Fe, N.M.: School of  American Research Press, 1995), 243– 72; R. Jones, ‘Firestick Farming’,  Australian Natural History 16 (1969), 224- 28.

22 David J. Meltzer, First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

23 Paul L. Koch and Anthony D. Barnosky, ‘Late Quaternary Extinctions:  State of the Debate’, The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and  Systematics 37 (2006), 215-50; Anthony D. Barnosky et al., ‘Assessing  the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents’, 70-5.

24 本地图主要参考： Peter Bellwood, First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies (Malden: Blackwell Pub., 2005).

25 Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2006), 130-131; Robert S. Walker and Drew H. Bailey, ‘Body Counts in  Lowland South American Violence,’ Evolution and Human Behavior 34  (2013), 29-34.

26 Katherine A. Spielmann, ‘A Review: Dietary Restriction on  Hunter-Gatherer Women and the Implications for Fertility and Infant  Mortality’, Human Ecology 17:3 (1989), 321-45. 并请参见：Bruce Winterhalder  and Eric Alder Smith, ‘Analyzing Adaptive Strategies: Human Behavioral  Ecology at Twenty Five’, Evolutionary Anthropology 9:2 (2000), 51-72.

27 Alain Bideau, Bertrand Desjardins and Hector Perez-Brignoli (eds.),  Infant and Child Mortality in the Past (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997);  Edward Anthony Wrigley et al., English Population History from Family  Reconstitution, 1580-1837 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997),  295-96, 303.

28 Manfred Heun et al., ‘Site of Einkorn Wheat Domestication Identified by DNA Fingerprints’, Science 278:5341 (1997), 1312-14.

29 Charles Patterson, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and  the Holocaust (New York: Lantern Books, 2002), 9-10; Peter J. Ucko and  G.W. Dimbleby (ed.), The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and  Animals (London: Duckworth, 1969), 259.

30 Avi Pinkas (ed.), Farmyard Animals in Israel – Research, Humanism and  Activity (Rishon Le-Ziyyon: The Association for Farmyard Animals, 2009  [Hebrew]), 169-199; “Milk Production – the Cow” [Hebrew], The Dairy  Council, accessed March 22, 2012,  http://www.milk.org.il/cgiwebaxy/sal/sal.pl?lang=he&ID=645657_

milk&act=show&dbid=katavot&dat aid=cow.htm

31 Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of  Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1969); E.C. Amoroso and P.A. Jewell, ‘The  Exploitation of the Milk-Ejection Reflex by Primitive People’, in Man  and Cattle: Proceedings of the Symposium on Domestication at the Royal  Anthropological Institute, 24-26 May 1960, ed. A.E. Mourant and F.E.  Zeuner (London: The Royal Anthropological Institute, 1963), 129-34.

32 Johannes Nicolaisen, Ecology and Culture of the Pastoral Tuareg (Copenhagen: National Museum, 1963), 63.

33 Angus Maddison, The World Economy, vol. 2 (Paris: Development Centre  of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006),  636; “Historical Estimates of World Population”, U.S. Census Bureau,  accessed December 10, 2010, http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html.

34 Robert B. Mark, The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and  Ecological Narrative (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,  2002), 24.

35 Raymond Westbrook, ‘Old Babylonian Period’, in A History of Ancient  Near Eastern Law, vol. 1, ed. Raymond Westbrook (Leiden: Brill, 2003),  361- 430; Martha T. Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia  Minor, 2nd ed. (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997), 71-142; M. E. J.  Richardson, Hammurabi’s Laws: Text, Translation and Glossary (London: T  & T Clark International, 2000).

36 Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia, 76.

37 Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia, 121.

38 Roth, Law Collections from Mesopotamia, 122-23.

39 Roth, Law Collections, 133-34.

40 Constance Brittaine Bouchard, Strong of Body, Brave and Noble:  Chivalry and Society in Medieval France (New York: Cornell University  Press, 1998), 99; Mary Martin McLaughlin, ‘Survivors and Surrogates:  Children and Parents from the Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries’, in  Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household and Children, ed.  Carol Neel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 81 n. 81; Lise  E. Hull, Britain's Medieval Castles (Westport: Praeger, 2006), 144.

41 Andrew Robinson, The Story of Writing (New York: Thames and Hudson,  1995), 63; Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow and Robert K. Englung, Archaic  Bookkeeping: Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the  Ancient Near East (Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press,  1993), 36.

42 Marcia and Robert Ascher, Mathematics of the Incas-Code of the Quipu (New York: Dover Publications, 1981).

43 Gary Urton. Signs of the Inka Khipu (Austin: University of Texas  Press, 2003); Galen Brokaw. A History of the Khipu (Cambridge: Cambridge  University Press, 2010).

44 Stephen D. Houston (ed.), The First Writing: Script Invention as  History and Process (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 222.

45 Sheldon Pollock, ‘Axialism and Empire’, in Axial Civilizations and  World History, ed. Johann P. Arnason, S. N. Eisenstadt and Bj.rn  Wittrock (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 397-451.

46 Harold M. Tanner, China: A History (Indianapolis: Hackett, Pub. Co., 2009), 34.

47 Ramesh Chandra, Identity and Genesis of Caste System in India (Delhi:  Kalpaz Publications, 2005); Michael Bamshad et al., ‘Genetic Evidence  on the Origins of Indian Caste Population’, Genome Research 11 (2001):  904-1004; Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the  Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University  Press, 1999).

48 Houston, First Writing, 196.

49 The Secretary-General, United Nations, Report of the  Secretary-General on the In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence Against  Women, delivered to the General Assembly, U.N. Doc. A/16/122/Add.1  (July 6, 2006), 89.

50 Sue Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), 113-29, 132-33.

51 Francisco López de Gómara, Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, vol.  1, ed. D. Joaquin Ramirez Caba.es (Mexico City: Editorial Pedro Robredo,  1943), 106.

52 Andrew M. Watson, ‘Back to Gold – and Silver’, Economic History  Review 20:1 (1967), 11-12; Jasim Alubudi, Repertorio Bibliográfico del  Islam (Madrid: Vision Libros, 2003), 194.

53 Watson, ‘Back to Gold – and Silver’, 17-18.

54 David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House, 2011).

55 Glyn Davies, A History of Money: from Ancient Times to the Present Day (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1994), 15.

56 Szymon Laks, Music of Another World, trans. Chester A. Kisiel  (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1989), 88-89.  奥斯维辛集中营的“市场”仅限于部分阶级的囚犯，而且在不同时期的差异非常大。

57 Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008), 4.

58 关于麦元的信息，我参考了一本未出版的博士论文：Refael Benvenisti, Economic Institutions of  Ancient Assyrian Trade in the Twentieth to Eighteenth Centuries BC  (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 2011).  并请参见：Norman Yoffee, ‘The Economy of Ancient Western Asia’, in  Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, vol. 1, ed. J. M. Sasson (New  York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1995), 1387-99; R. K. Englund,  ‘Proto-Cuneiform Account-Books and Journals’, in Creating Economic  Order: Record-keeping, Standardization, and the Development of  Accounting in the Ancient Near East, ed. Michael Hudson and Cornelia  Wunsch (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2004), 21-46; Marvin A. Powell, ‘A  Contribution to the History of Money in Mesopotamia prior to the  Invention of Coinage’, in Festschrift Lubor Matou., ed. B. Hru.ka and G.  Komoróczy (Budapest: E.tv.s Loránd Tudományegyetem, 1978), 211-43;  Marvin A. Powell, ‘Money in Mesopotamia’, Journal of the Economic and  Social History of the Orient, 39:3 (1996), 224-42; John F. Robertson,  ‘The Social and Economic Organization of Ancient Mesopotamian Temples’,  in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, vol. 1, ed. Sasson, 443-500;  M. Silver, ‘Modern Ancients’, in Commerce and Monetary Systems in the  Ancient World: Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction, ed. R.  Rollinger and U. Christoph (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004), 65-87; Daniel C.  Snell, ‘Methods of Exchange and Coinage in Ancient Western Asia’, in  Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, vol. 1, ed. Sasson, 1487-97.

59 Nahum Megged, The Aztecs (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1999 [Hebrew]), 103.

60 Tacitus, Agricola, ch. 30 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp. 220-21.

61 A. Fienup-Riordan, The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and  Ritual Distribution (Anchorage: Alaska Pacific University Press, 1983),  p. 10.

62 Yuri Pines, ‘Nation States, Globalization and a United Empire – the  Chinese Experience (third to fifth centuries BC)’, Historia 15 (1995),  54 [Hebrew].

63 Alexander Yakobson, ‘Us and Them: Empire, Memory and Identity in  Claudius Speech on Bringing Gauls into the Roman Senate’, in On Memory:  An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. Doron Mendels (Oxford: Peter Land,  2007), 23-24.

64 W.H.C. Frend, Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2008), 536-37.

65 Robert Jean Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610 (London: Fontana Press, 1996), 424.

66 Marie Harm and Hermann Wiehle, Lebenskunde fuer Mittelschulen  -Fuenfter Teil. Klasse 5 fuer Jungen (Halle: Hermann Schroedel Verlag,  1942), 152-57.

67 Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

68 David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History  (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 344-45; Angus  Maddison, The World Economy, vol. 2 (Paris: Development Centre of the  Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development, 2001), 636;  ‘Historical Estimates of World Population’, U.S. Census Bureau, accessed  December 10, 2010,

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html.

69 Maddison, The World Economy, vol. 1, 261.

70 "Gross Domestic Product 2009", The World Bank, Data and Statistics,  accessed December 10, 2010,  http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GDP.pdf

71 Christian, Maps of Time, 141.

72 当代最大的货轮能够承载大约10万吨的货物。在1470年，全球舰队船队加起来，承载量也不超过32万吨。到了1570年，总承载量已达到73万吨。(Maddison, The World Economy, vol. 1, 97).

73 全球规模最大的银行，苏格兰皇家银行（Royal Bank of  Scotland），于2007年申报的存款为1.3兆美元，是1500年全球总产值的五倍。参见 ‘Annual Report and  Accounts 2008’, The Royal Bank of Scotland, 35, accessed December 10,  2010.

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/RBS/626570033x0x278481/eb7a003a-5c9b-41ef-bad3-81fb98a6c823/RBS_GRA_2008_09_03_09.pdf

74 Ferguson, Ascent of Money, 185-98.

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76 Wrigley, English Population History, 296.

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78 Michael Prestwich, Edward I (Berkley: University of California Press, 1988), 125-26.

79 Jennie B. Dorman et al., ‘The age-1 and daf-2 Genes Function in a  Common Pathway to Control the Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans’,  Genetics 141:4 (1995), 1399-1406; Koen Houthoofd et al., ‘Life Extension  via Dietary Restriction is Independent of the Ins/IGF-1 Signaling  Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans’, Experimental Gerontology 38:9  (2003), 947-54.

80 Shawn M. Douglas, Ido Bachelet, and George M. Church, ‘A Logic-Gated  Nanorobot for Targeted Transport of Molecular Payloads’, Science  335:6070 (2012): 831-4; Dan Peer et al., ‘Nanocarriers As An Emerging  Platform for Cancer Therapy’, Nature Nanotechnology 2 (2007): 751-60;  Dan Peer et al., ‘Systemic Leukocyte-Directed siRNA Delivery Revealing  Cyclin D1 as an Anti-Inflammatory Target’, Science 319:5863 (2008):  627-30.

81 Stephen R. Bown, Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Matin's Press, 2004); Kenneth John Carpenter, The History of Scurvy and Vitamin C (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).

82 James Cook, The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of his Own Journals 1768-1779, ed. Archibald Grenfell Price (New York : Dover Publications, 1971), 16-17; Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 5; J.C. Beaglehole, ed., The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), 588.

83 Mark, Origins of the Modern World, 81.

84 Christian, Maps of Time, 436.

85 John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1405 (London: Allen Lane, 2007), 239.

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87 Mark, The Origins of the Modern World, 46.

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