Dominion

By: Niles Eldredge

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Paperback | 29 May 1997 | Edition Number 1

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190 Pages

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Overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, hunting of nonhuman species to extinction: paleontologist Niles Eldredge questions the long term survival of humans, given our propensity for living beyond our ecological means. In Dominion he reviews the relation between biological and cultural evolution, showing how the agricultural revolution freed humans from dependence on local ecosystems and allowed us to assert our dominion, as the Christian Bible has it, over the beasts of the field. Unless we quickly change our homocentric ways, we'll irretrievably destroy our own habitat.

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"The human population of the earth is a standing affront to the rules of ecology. No reasonable scientific prediction would admit there to be so many of us. . . . "Dominion is a short book, written for the nonspecialist audience, about this big paradox. He asks both how it came about, and what our understanding of it tells us (or suggests to us) about the human future."--Mark Ridley, "New York Times Book Review

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