A Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century - Couverture souple

Brooks, Daniel R.; Agosta, Salvatore J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262553953 ISBN 13 : 9780262553957

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2026

Synopsis

How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.

Despite efforts to sustain civilization, humanity faces existential threats from overpopulation, globalized trade and travel, urbanization, and global climate change. In A Darwinian Survival Guide, Daniel Brooks and Salvatore Agosta draw on their expertise as field biologists to offer a novel—and hopeful—perspective on how to meet these tremendous challenges by changing the discourse from sustainability to survival. Darwinian evolution, the world's only theory of survival, is the means by which the biosphere has persisted and renewed itself following past environmental perturbations, and it has never failed, they explain. Even in the aftermath of mass extinctions, enough survivors remain with the potential to produce a new diversified biosphere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel R. Brooks is Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto; Senior Research Fellow, H. W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum; and Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). He is the coauthor of The Stockholm Paradigm and The Major Metaphors of Evolution.

Salvatore J. Agosta is Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of more than fifty scientific publications and coauthor of The Major Metaphors of Evolution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262553953
• ISBN 13: 9780262553957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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