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''Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History'' is a 2001 book by noted American historian and writer Robert S. McElvaine that introduced the new field of "biohistory" and presents a major reinterpretation of the human experience. This "provocative study"〔Joyce Appleby, "Sex, Science and the Vanity of the Species," ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'', April 29, 2001.〕 is history on the grandest scale. It "re-synthesizes the full sweep of human history around the concept of sexual difference."〔John Pettegrew, "Deepening the History of Masculinity and the Sexes," ''Reviews in American History'', vol. 31, number 1 (2003) pp. 135-142.〕 McElvaine utilizes biology, anthropology, psychology, religious studies, women's studies, and popular culture, in addition to more traditional history, in weaving his reinterpreation of the course of human history from evolution to the present. He builds upon and extends the work of such thinkers as Karen Horney, Margaret Mead, Ashley Montagu, and Gerda Lerner. A Chinese edition of ''Eve's Seed'' was published by Horizon Media Company of Beijing in 2004. ==Significance and Reception== Some leading academics see ''Eve's Seed'' as a revolutionary work of major importance in how we understand human development, history, religion, and the sexes. World historian William Hardy McNeill calls ''Eve's Seed'' "a powerful, learned and provocative work" that "is a radical revision of traditional visions of human history." "As Marx turned Hegel upside down," Pulitzer Prize-winning Stanford historian Carl Degler has written, "so McElvaine overturns, among others, Aristotle, Marx, Freud, and even Darwin in showing how biological and cultural evolution need no longer see men and women as opposites or unequal." Degler calls ''Eve's Seed'' a "revelation, engagingly and imaginatively written and ... filled with fresh and challenging interpretations."〔http://evesseed.net/〕 In a rare case of agreement, feminist pioneer Betty Friedan and Harvard sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson both see ''Eve's Seed'' as a ground-breaking work that will change the way we see the human condition. "''Eve's Seed'' signals a significant paradigm shift,” Friedan wrote, and Wilson said, "a new field is stirring to life" with the book.〔http://evesseed.net/〕 Writing in the ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'', Joyce Appleby, past president of the American Historical Association says that ''Eve's Seed'' is written in "sparkling prose" and terms it "a bestseller waiting to be discovered."〔Joyce Appleby, "Sex, Science and the Vanity of the Species," ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'', April 29, 2001.〕 In a starred review, Publishers Weekly said that McElvaine's "challenging overview" is "daring": "Written with passion, wit and insight, this accessible book throws down the gauntlet to academics and nonspecialists alike, daring a radical rethinking of the basic 'truths' on which cultures have been constructed."〔http://home.millsaps.edu/mcelvrs/publishers_weekly_review.htm〕 McElvaine's concept of biohistory has been explored in articles in the New York Times〔Emily Eakin, "Tilling History With Biology's Tools," ''New York Times'', February 10, 2001.〕 and the ''Chronicle of Higher Education'',〔Robert S. McElvaine, "The Relevance of Biohistory," ''Chronicle Review'', October 18, 2002.〕 and his interdisciplinary reinterpretation of the human experience has been the subject of panels at meetings of the American Historical Association, the American Anthropological Association, the International Freud Conference, the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. McElvaine has presented lectures on the ideas contained in ''Eve's Seed'' at conferences in Russia, Austria, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. A major international, interdisciplinary confereence on the McElvaine Thesis, "Bridging the Great Divide: Robert S. McElvaine's ''Eve's Seed'' and the Quest to Bring Together Biology, Anthropology, Religion, and History", was held in 2002.〔http://home.millsaps.edu/mcelvrs/Bridging_the_Great_Divide.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eve's Seed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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