LEADER 04835nam 22007575 450 001 9910254102803321 005 20230306213631.0 010 $a3-319-22512-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-22512-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000501040 035 $a(EBL)4084169 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001584445 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16265043 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001584445 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14864283 035 $a(PQKB)10187252 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-22512-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4084169 035 $a(PPN)190535938 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000501040 100 $a20151104d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClimate, Fire and Human Evolution$b[electronic resource] $eThe Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene /$fby Andrew Y. Glikson, Colin Groves 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aModern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences,$x1876-1682 ;$v10 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-22511-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo ? which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both?biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality, omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about ~7000 years-ago production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth?s hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species?constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth. 410 0$aModern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences,$x1876-1682 ;$v10 606 $aAtmospheric sciences 606 $aEnvironmental sciences 606 $aGeobiology 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aArchaeology 606 $aAtmospheric Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G36000 606 $aEnvironmental Science and Engineering$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G37000 606 $aBiogeosciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G35010 606 $aAnthropology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12000 606 $aArchaeology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X13000 615 0$aAtmospheric sciences. 615 0$aEnvironmental sciences. 615 0$aGeobiology. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aArchaeology. 615 14$aAtmospheric Sciences. 615 24$aEnvironmental Science and Engineering. 615 24$aBiogeosciences. 615 24$aAnthropology. 615 24$aArchaeology. 676 $a573.2 700 $aGlikson$b Andrew Y$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0904200 702 $aGroves$b Colin P$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254102803321 996 $aClimate, Fire and Human Evolution$92511318 997 $aUNINA