Taiwan’s gift to the
world
Nature
403, 709-710 (17 February 2000)
Linguistics: Taiwan's
gift to the world
Jared M. Diamond
Abstract
Study of the giant
Austronesian language family tells us a great deal about the history of Pacific
peoples and boatbuilding, as well as about Aboriginal Australia.
We humans are
defined and fascinated by our languages. Especially intriguing are the 1,200 or
so languages of the Austronesian language family, possibly the largest family
among the 6,000 languages of the modern world1.
(To read this
story in full you will need to pay).
但this
link 有 original article in Nature (free)
另外陳其南在「當代雜誌」2010年9月有一文用中文寫更多圖及資料
從上Taiwan’s gift to the world談起
網上有（free）
另可參考朱真一寫Dr.
Diamond書的簡介：
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簡介兩本從生物學及自然環境看人類歷史及社會的好書：
Guns,
Germs, and Steel（槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵）
Collapse：How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed （大崩壞：人類社會的明天）
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You might be interested, there is a new article below:
回覆刪除The article is published in the National Geographic July 2013 regarding "The Tale of 3 Human, " i.e., Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens (modern human).
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