Full Description
Animals and Human Society: Impacts of Animals on People and People on Animals, Second editon provides a solid, scientific, research-based background to advance our understanding of how animals and humans interact and impact each other. Animals and humans have had profound effects on each other throughout human history, spanning all aspects of human society from agriculture, disease, culture, religion, companionship, entertainment, environment, and more. Developed by renowned experts Colin Scanes and Samia Toukhsati, this second edition features a new introductory chapter covering the biological concepts necessary for technical and non-technical audiences of this book. All first edition chapters have been revised to bring readers up to date on research advancements from the last decade, and novel chapters cover animal ethics, welfare, the basis of anthrozoology, zooarchaeology, and more. Guest essays further supplement updated chapter content by providing broad interdisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives in the field. Animals and Human Society, Second Edition is an excellent resource for academics and industry professionals requiring fundamental information on the history and biology behind human-animal interactions, as well as interested laypersons looking to augment their knowledge on the many impacts of animals in human society.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Ethics, welfare and animals
3. Animal perception including differences with humans
4. Animal attributes exploited by humans (nonfood uses of animals)
5. Animal products and human nutrition
6. Zooarchaeology
7. Hunter gatherers
8. Animal and hominin development
9. The neolithic revolution, animal domestication and early forms of animal agriculture
10. Animal agriculture: Livestock, poultry and fish aquaculture
11. Invertebrates and their use by humans
12. Animals in the military
13. Animals in entertainment
14. Zoos
15. Animals and religion, belief systems
16. Animals as companions
17. Companion animal behavior
18. Anthrozoology
19. Animals in medicine and research
20. Animals and human disease: Zoonosis, vectors, food-borne diseases and allergies Chapter 21: Pest animals
22. Parasites
23. Invasive species
24. Impact of agricultural animals on the environment
25. Human activity and habitat loss: Destruction, fragmentation and degradation
26. Animal extinctions
