Human success : evolutionary origins and ethical implications /
"The concept of evolutionary success is not merely a quantifiable causal-descriptive concept, but has a strong ethical-normative component as well. Herein lies the danger: in reflecting on the success of a species, we need to carefully consider whether we are just exporting our anthropocentric...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the manifold challenges to understanding human success / Hugh Desmond and Grant Ramsey
- Evolutionary success : standards of value / Dan McShea
- Human success : a contextual and pluralistic view / Marion Hourdequin
- Human success as a complex of autonomy, adaptation, and niche construction / Bernd Rosslenbroich
- The origin and evolution of human uniqueness / Geerat Vermeij
- Wanderlust : a view from deep time of dispersal, persistence, and human success / Susan Antón
- Culture as a life-history character : the cognitive continuum in primates and hominins / Matt Grove
- A gene-culture coevolutionary perspective on human success / Kathryn Demps and Peter Richerson
- Anthropocene patterns in stratigraphy as a perspective on human success / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Colin Waters
- Utter success and extensive inequity : assessing processes, patterns, and outcomes of the human niche in the anthropocene / Agustín Fuentes
- Adaptability and the continuation of human origins / Richard Potts.