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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Tác giả chính: Bertness, Mark D., 1949- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2417726
Mục lục:
  • 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.