A brief natural history of civilization : why a balance between cooperation & competition is vital to humanity /
"Mark Bertness argues that human civilization is the product of the same self-organization, evolutionary competition, cooperation, and natural selection processes that have created all other life on Earth. This perspective reveals how human history is natural history and explores how humans, as...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2417726 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why natural history?
- Life : Where We Came From. Cooperative life
- Life in the food chain
- Taming nature
- Civilization : Who We Are
- The triumph and curse of civilization
- Resource exploitation
- Famine and disease
- Domination versus coopertion
- Fate : Where We Are Going. Our ethnocentric, entheogenic universe
- Preserving food and improving health
- Civilization on fire
- Unnatural nature
- Epilogue: The natural history of civilizations.