LEADER 02820nam 2200433 450 001 9910794174103321 005 20220913191313.0 010 $a0-300-25264-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300252644 035 $a(CKB)4100000010858766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6151540 035 $a(DE-B1597)550932 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300252644 035 $a(OCoLC)1148871311 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010858766 100 $a20200708d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA brief natural history of civilization $ewhy a balance between cooperation & competition is vital to humanity /$fMark Bertness 210 1$aNew Haven ;$aLondon :$cYale University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (316 pages) 311 $a0-300-24591-2 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Why Natural History? --$t1. Cooperative Life --$t2. Life in the Food Chain --$t3. Taming Nature --$t4. The Triumph and Curse of Civilization --$t5. Resource Exploitation --$t6. Famine and Disease --$t7. Domination versus Cooperation --$t8. Our Ethnocentric, Entheogenic Universe --$t9. Preserving Food and Improving Health --$t10. Civilization on Fire --$t11. Unnatural Nature --$tEpilogue: The Natural History of Civilizations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIllustration Credits --$tIndex 330 $aA compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on Earth Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and natural selection processes that have created all other life on Earth. Bertness follows the evolutionary process from the primordial soup of two billion years ago through today, exploring the ways opposing forces of competition and cooperation have led to current assemblages of people, animals, and plants.   Bertness?s thoughtful examination of human history from the perspective of natural history provides new insights about why and how civilization developed as it has and explores how humans, as a species, might have to consciously overrule our evolutionary drivers to survive future challenges. 606 $aNature and civilization 615 0$aNature and civilization. 676 $a508 700 $aBertness$b Mark$01482801 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794174103321 996 $aA brief natural history of civilization$93700667 997 $aUNINA