Dominion
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Dominion
University of California Press, [1997], c1995
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Originally published: New York : H. Holt, 1995
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
by "Nielsen BookData"