Living in a Dangerous Climate: Climate Change and Human Evolution

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Living in a Dangerous Climate: Climate Change and Human Evolution

Author(s): Renée Hetherington (Author)

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date: 5 July 2012
  • Edition: Illustrated
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 274 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1107017254
  • ISBN-13: 9781107017252

Book Description

Living in a Dangerous Climate provides a journey through human and Earth history, showing how a changing climate has affected human evolution and society. Is it possible for humanity to evolve quickly, or is slow, gradual, genetic evolution the only way we change? Why did all other Homo species go extinct while Homo sapiens became dominant? How did agriculture, domestication and the use of fossil fuels affect humanity’s growing dominance? Do today’s dominant societies – devoted as they are to Darwinism and ‘survival of the fittest’ – contribute to our current failure to meet the hazards of a dangerous climate? Unique and thought provoking, the book links scientific knowledge and perspectives of evolution, climate change and economics in a way that is accessible and exciting for the general reader. The book is also valuable for courses on climate change, human evolution and environmental science.

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘… a wide-ranging book with high ambitions … excellent read for the general reader …’ Miriam Belmaker, Reports of the National Center for Science Education

‘… a very informative and readable tour through the history of humankind and its relations to the climates …’ Natural Hazards Observer

‘Ethnobiologists, especially those concerned with the role of environmental interactions in the history of human evolution and the development of farming, will find this book useful. In particular, the synthesis of recent research is especially enjoyable, and supported by an extensive bibliography and informative endnotes. The book also stands as an important example of how palaeoanthropological and ethnobiological perspectives can be brought to bear on the question of what to do about surviving climate change.’ Ethnobiology Letters

Book Description

A unique, thought-provoking journey from early humans’ evolutionary response to climate change to today’s global crisis, for students and the general reader.

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