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2024
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9780262048682

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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
026204868X
ISBN-13
9780262048682
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21060629114

Product Key Features

Book Title
Darwinian Survival Guide : Hope for the Twenty-First Century
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Ecology, Global Warming & Climate Change
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Nature, Science
Author
Daniel R. Brooks, Salvatore J. Agosta
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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Trade
LCCN
2023-002410
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230929
Reviews
"Timely, thought-provoking, and refreshingly optimistic. . . . Applying the principles of evolution in thoughtful ways, A Darwinian Survival Guide tackles the complexities of climate change with creativity, optimism, and vision." -- Foreword Reviews
Dewey Decimal
304.2
Table Of Content
CONTENTS PREFACE vii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 HOW DOES NATURE WORK? INHERITANCE SYSTEMS 15 3 HOW DOES NATURE WORK? ECOSYSTEMS 39 4 HUMANS: THE EARLY DAYS 59 5 THE LATE PLEISTOCENE: THE RISE OF HOMO SAPIENS 79 6 AFTER THE ICE AGE: THE GREAT TRANSITION 89 7 THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD: THE GREAT AMPLIFICATION 101 8 INSTITUTIONALIZING SOCIETY: THE GREAT TRAGEDY 117 9 OVERSPENDING AS A WAY OF LIFE: INFLECTION AND ACCELERATION 145 10 HOW HUMANS SHOULD INTERACT WITH THE REST OF THE BIOSPHERE 165 11 CONVIVIAL CONSERVATION IN AN EVOLUTIONARY COMMONS: COSTA RICA'S GREEN PHOENIX 193 12 HOW HUMANS SHOULD INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER 205 13 HOW HUMANS SHOULD INTERACT WITH THEIR INSTITUTIONS 231 14 AUTUMN OF THE ANTHROPOCENE: HOPE FOR NOW, HOPE FOR THE FUTURE 255 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 271 SELECTED READINGS 273 INDEX 335
Synopsis
How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago-and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes. Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide , Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel-and hopeful-perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the world's only theory of survival, is the means by which the biosphere has persisted and renewed itself following past environmental perturbations, and it has never failed, they explain. Even in the aftermath of mass extinctions, enough survivors remain with the potential to produce a new diversified biosphere. Drawing on their expertise as field biologists, Brooks and Agosta trace the evolutionary path from the early days of humans through the Late Pleistocene and the beginning of the Anthropocene all the way to the Great Acceleration of technological humanity around 1950, demonstrating how our creative capacities have allowed humanity to survive. However, constant conflict without resolution has made the Anthropocene not only unsustainable, but unsurvivable. Guided by the four laws of biotics, the authors explain how humanity should interact with the rest of the biosphere and with each other in accordance with Darwinian principles. They reveal a middle ground between apocalypse and utopia, with two options- alter our behavior now at great expense and extend civilization or fail to act and rebuild in accordance with those same principles. If we take the latter, then our immediate goal ought to focus on preserving as many of humanity's positive achievements-from high technology to high art-as possible to shorten the time needed to rebuild., How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago--and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes. Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide , Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta offer a novel--and hopeful--perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the world's only theory of survival, is the means by which the biosphere has persisted and renewed itself following past environmental perturbations, and it has never failed, they explain. Even in the aftermath of mass extinctions, enough survivors remain with the potential to produce a new diversified biosphere. Drawing on their expertise as field biologists, Brooks and Agosta trace the evolutionary path from the early days of humans through the Late Pleistocene and the beginning of the Anthropocene all the way to the Great Acceleration of technological humanity around 1950, demonstrating how our creative capacities have allowed humanity to survive. However, constant conflict without resolution has made the Anthropocene not only unsustainable, but unsurvivable. Guided by the four laws of biotics, the authors explain how humanity should interact with the rest of the biosphere and with each other in accordance with Darwinian principles. They reveal a middle ground between apocalypse and utopia, with two options: alter our behavior now at great expense and extend civilization or fail to act and rebuild in accordance with those same principles. If we take the latter, then our immediate goal ought to focus on preserving as many of humanity's positive achievements--from high technology to high art--as possible to shorten the time needed to rebuild.
LC Classification Number
GF41.B778 2024

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