The World's Construction Mechanism : Trajectories, Imbalances, and the Future of Societies.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- I.1. Objectives and methodological framework -- I.2. Getting off to a good start -- 1. History of Color -- 1.1. Linnaeus and us -- 1.2. Ultraviolet and melanin -- 1.3. The skin map -- 1.4. New World Drama -- 1.5. Foundations of an unfounded theory -- 1.6. Deviations in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- 1.7. Symbols and fantasies -- 1.8. Whiteness, blondness and blueness -- 2. Geoclimate and Prosperity -- 2.1. Comparisons -- 2.2. More comfortable in the cold than in the heat -- 2.3. Delights of thermal comfort -- 2.4. Temperate life -- 2.5. Time and temperature -- 3. Pathway of Societal Precociousness -- 3.1. From climate to history -- 3.2. Original migrations -- 3.3. The corridor effect -- 3.4. On the road to human societies -- 3.5. Obsessive obsidian -- 3.6. From self-service to production control -- 3.7. A crescent… -- 3.8. …fertile in ideas -- 3.9. The emergence of the alphabet -- 4. Diffusion of Societal Achievements -- 4.1. The notion of diffusion -- 4.2. Initiation of diffusion -- 4.3. Dynamics of diffusion -- 4.4. From diffusion to prosperity -- 4.5. Other migration and other diffusion -- 4.6. The steppe issue -- 5. Cultural Intermission -- 5.1. Taking stock -- 5.2. Tracing culture -- 6. Mechanism and Realities -- 6.1. The world's mechanism -- 6.2. A very important differential -- 6.3. Two sub-species? -- 6.4. What connects the two realities? -- 6.5. Youths -- 7. Other Potential Reasons for Societal Imbalances -- 7.1. Inter and intra variation -- 7.2. WCM and income inequality -- 7.3. Factors of income inequality -- 7.4. The creation of inequality -- 7.5. An Asian Energy? -- 7.6. Combining equality and prosperity -- 8. Three Crucial Questions -- 8.1. A potentially different world? -- 8.2. A potentially devastated world? -- 8.3. Any damage?.

9. Rebalancing Societies -- 9.1. In search of the human project -- 9.2. Two major societal innovations -- 9.3. Containing the WCM -- 9.3.1. Obstacles -- 9.3.2. The educational component -- 9.3.3. The institutional aspect -- 9.4. The future: containment or conflict? -- 9.5. Arrival -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Science, Society and New Technologies -- EULA.

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