Descrizione
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.
Dettagli del libro
Formato
Brossura
Pagine
208 pagine
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
mag 29, 1997
Editore
University of California Press
Edizioni
2 edizioni
ISBN-10
0520208455
ISBN-13
9780520208452