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agricultural revolution
agriculture
anthropology
Author_Niles Eldredge
biodiversity
biological evolution
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climate change
conservation
cultural evolution
cultural homogeneity
despoliation
ecology
ecosystem
environment
environmental science
environmentalism
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evolution
evolutionary biology
extinction
global climate
global ecosystem
habitat
media
natural resources
natural world
nature
nonfiction
nonhuman species
overpopulation
paleontology
politics
punctuated equilibria
science
social issues
stephen jay gould
Product details
- ISBN 9780520208452
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 29 May 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, hunting of nonhuman species to extinction: paleontologist Niles Eldredge questions the long term survival of humans, given our propensity for living beyond our ecological means. In Dominion he reviews the relation between biological and cultural evolution, showing how the agricultural revolution freed humans from dependence on local ecosystems and allowed us to assert our dominion, as the Christian Bible has it, over the beasts of the field. Unless we quickly change our homocentric ways, we'll irretrievably destroy our own habitat.
Niles Eldredge is a curator in the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Among his books is Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory (1995).
