Dominion

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-520-20845-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, hunting of nonhuman species to extinction: paleontologist Niles Eldredge questions the long term survival of humans, given our propensity for living beyond our ecological means. In Dominion he reviews the relation between biological and cultural evolution, showing how the agricultural revolution freed humans from dependence on local ecosystems and allowed us to assert our dominion, as the Christian Bible has it, over the beasts of the field. Unless we quickly change our homocentric ways, we'll irretrievably destroy our own habitat.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eldredge, Niles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Beyond Nature-Nurture

1
Human Futures
2
Nurturing Nature
3
The Way We Were
4
Becoming Human and Stepping Out
5
The Way We Are
6
Fashioning the Future

Afterword
A New Story

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Niles Eldredge is a curator in the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Among his books is Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory (1995).