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A Brief Natural History of Civilization : Why a Balance Between Cooperation and Competition Is Vital to Humanity.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300252644
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Brief Natural History of CivilizationDDC classification:
  • 508.09
LOC classification:
  • CB460 .B478 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Natural History? -- PART I: LIFE: WHERE WE CAME FROM -- 1. Cooperative Life -- 2. Life in the Food Chain -- 3. Taming Nature -- PART II: CIVILIZATION: WHO WE ARE -- 4. The Triumph and Curse of Civilization -- 5. Resource Exploitation -- 6. Famine and Disease -- 7. Domination versus Cooperation -- PART III: FATE: WHERE WE ARE GOING -- 8. Our Ethnocentric, Entheogenic Universe -- 9. Preserving Food and Improving Health -- 10. Civilization on Fire -- 11. Unnatural Nature -- Epilogue: The Natural History of Civilizations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: A compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on Earth.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Natural History? -- PART I: LIFE: WHERE WE CAME FROM -- 1. Cooperative Life -- 2. Life in the Food Chain -- 3. Taming Nature -- PART II: CIVILIZATION: WHO WE ARE -- 4. The Triumph and Curse of Civilization -- 5. Resource Exploitation -- 6. Famine and Disease -- 7. Domination versus Cooperation -- PART III: FATE: WHERE WE ARE GOING -- 8. Our Ethnocentric, Entheogenic Universe -- 9. Preserving Food and Improving Health -- 10. Civilization on Fire -- 11. Unnatural Nature -- Epilogue: The Natural History of Civilizations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

A compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on Earth.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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