Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity

by Rowan Hooper

有时我也忘记了人类的行为和本领是多么神奇。我在写作中拜访了一些人，他们在不同的性状上将人类的潜能发挥到了极致。他们在我们推崇的那些品质上达到了顶尖水平，比如智力、音乐能力、勇气和耐力。 我们还会遇见另一些人，他们在人生最重要的事情上达到了顶峰，比如幸福和长寿。这本书是在歌颂人类所能展现的最好的一面。与这些人相遇，我们将惊叹于人类这个物种的多样和潜能。这些人超越了凡人，但并没有超越自然。 我们或许能沾上他们的一点星辉，并由此窥见将来的人类会是什么样子。揭开这些极限本领的原理会深化我们对于自身的理解，并给予我们日常生活方面的教益。我们还会认识到，自己虽然不是超人，但也有超出自己预料的潜力。我们都有隐藏的深度。这些性状都是人类渴望提升、努力改进的。

327 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2019

About the author

Rowan Hooper is Managing Editor of New Scientist magazine, where he has spent more than ten years writing about all aspects of science.

He has a PhD in evolutionary biology, and worked as a biologist in Japan for five years, before joining the Japan Times newspaper in Tokyo, and later taking up a fellowship at Trinity College Dublin.

Two collections of his long-running column for the paper have been published in Japan, and his work has also appeared in The Economist, Guardian, Wired and the Washington Post.

He lives in London with his partner and two daughters.