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"In Dominion, Niles Eldredge, the paleontologist whose evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibria (developed with Stephen Jay Gould in the early 1970s) is today's science, reveals that the decoupling of physical and cultural evolution some ten thousand years ago offers the strongest clue to what to expect in the future. As the author makes clear, agriculture relieved us from dependence on the local ecosystem; culture, not biology, allowed us to step outside the natural world, literally to have dominion over "the beasts of the field." We no longer had to depend upon the vastly slower rates of biological evolution to adjust to changing climates or to take advantage of new food resources. We used our wits and actually did do something about the weather." "However valid the premise, our escape from nature - our dominion over it - is an illusion. Eldredge explains that though we, unlike all other species, are no longer rooted in local ecosystems, we have not escaped nature - the mega-ecosystem. Instead we have merely redefined our role within it." "Our revised status in nature holds the key to understanding our evolutionary future. Being global means that we can no longer look to technological fixes to address the classic question posed by Thomas Malthus in 1799: How will we survive if population grows faster than our capacity to feed ourselves? As Niles Eldredge puts it, "Malthus was not so much wrong as ahead of his time.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780805029826 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0805029826 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.75 x 1.00 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $25.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 190 pages |
| Publisher | Henry Holt & Co |
| Published On | 1995-11-01 |
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