《第三牧场》内容简介

　　阶层是支撑复杂社会的一个重要结构元素。本书围绕等级阶梯的构造、壮大、嵌套、封闭、开放等，梳理了奉行原始平等主义的狩猎采集群体如何一步步发展成结构庞杂、层级丰厚的大型人类社会；对当今全球生育率下降导致的社会进化模式的转变，以及等级、文化、价值阶梯的断裂，进行了分析与反思。

　　另一方面，等级社会催生了围绕地位竞争的一系列手段、策略、组织和文化元素，由此为人类进化构造了一个全新舞台。个体间的竞争与合作如何展开，出现了哪些新策略？驱动人类行为的动力机制与以往有何不同，带来了怎样的进化后果，创造了哪些新元素和新结构？在此过程中，人类自身的生物与文化特性经历了何种改变？作者以严密的逻辑、深刻的洞察力，以及对庞大知识体系的掌控能力，为我们认识人类的过去、现在与未来提供了一种新颖而又广阔的视角。

　　作者简介

　　辉格，一位对人类社会抱有好奇、持续思考的思想者，开有独立博客“海德沙龙”（headsalon.org）。著有《自私的皮球》《沐猿而冠》《群居的艺术》，译有《自由的进化》。《沐猿而冠》获2015年《新周刊》年度新锐图书。

"The Third Ranch" content introduction

Stratum is an important structural element supporting complex society. This book focuses on the structure, expansion, nesting, closure, and opening of the hierarchy ladder, and sorts out how the primitive egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups gradually developed into a large human society with a complex structure and rich hierarchy. This paper analyzes and reflects on the change of social evolution model caused by the decline of global fertility and the fracture of hierarchy, culture and value ladder.

Hierarchical societies, on the other hand, gave rise to a range of means, strategies, organizations, and cultural elements surrounding status competition, thus creating a whole new arena for human evolution. How do individuals compete and cooperate, and what new strategies are emerging? How are the dynamics that drive human behavior different from the past, with what evolutionary consequences, and what new elements and structures have been created? In the process, how has our biological and cultural identity changed? With rigorous logic, profound insight, and the ability to control the vast knowledge system, the author provides us with a new and broad perspective to understand the past, present and future of mankind.

About the author

Whig, a curious and persistent thinker about human society, runs an independent blog, headsalon.org. He is the author of the Selfish Ball, The Ape and the Crown, The Art of Social Living, and the translation of the Evolution of Freedom. "Mu Ape and Crown" won the 2015 "New Weekly" new book of the year.