Megafauna: First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction - Couverture rigide

Edmeades, Baz

 
9781544526539: Megafauna: First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1544526539 ISBN 13 : 9781544526539
Editeur : Houndstooth Press, 2021

Synopsis

Ecological competition began as slow arms races. Predators evolved to hunt. Prey evolved to defend themselves. Each improvement was small, barely shifting the odds of survival. Nature remained in equilibrium.


Until the dawn of humanity.


When our ancestors developed the unique ability to think up new devices and behaviors, humanity became able to overcome nature's defenses far more quickly than natural selection could respond. Humankind spread out of Africa, wiping out most of the megafauna in its path-mammoths, sabertooth cats, elephant-sized sloths, and a great many other species.


Today, this formidable, inventive genius of our species-now grown to overwhelming and all-conquering proportions-is threatening to make the earth unlivable, even for ourselves.

The only weapon available to us to counter this threat is, ironically, the same one that unleashed our destructiveness in the first place: the analytical and creative power of the human brain.


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Éditeur
Houndstooth Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1544526539
ISBN 13 
9781544526539
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
364
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781544526515: Megafauna: First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction

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ISBN 10 :  1544526512 ISBN 13 :  9781544526515
Editeur : Houndstooth Press, 2021
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