The Hypothetical Species : Variables of Human Evolution （2019）

Tobias, Michael Charles/ Morrison, Jane Gray

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 318 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030113186
• DDC分類 599.938

Full Description

This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world's leading interdisciplinary ecologists - Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options - both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research - for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.

Contents

Introdution.- Between the Theoretical and the Hypothetical.- Taxonomic Uncertainties.- A Biosphere in Flux.- As Far as the Microscope Reveals.- Human Contradictions.- Varieties of Social Contracts.- Biological Consensus Mechanisms: The Future of Co-Existence.