Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (548 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511840357
Content:
We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
Note:
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Feb 2013)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521764360
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dilworth, Craig Too smart for our own good Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780521764360
Additional Edition:
ISBN 052176436X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521757690
Additional Edition:
ISBN 052175769X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Evolutionstheorie
;
Evolutionsökologie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511840357
