The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment

Anne H.  and Paul R. Ehrlich

http://www.dominantanimal.org

Table of Contents

16 Chapters

1. Darwin and Mendel's legacy
2. The Tangled Bank
3. Our Distant Past
4. Of Genes and Culture
5. Cultural evolution – How we relate to one another
6. Perception Evolution and Beliefs
7. Ups and downs of Population
8. History as Cultural Evolution
9. Cycles of Life
10. Ecosystems and Human Domination
11. Consumption and its Costs
12. New Imperative
13. Altering the Global Atmosphere
14. Energy: Are we Running Out?
15. Saving our Natural Capital
16. Governance: Tackling the Unanticipated Consequences

Dominant Animal; two figures:

Fig-1- Rates of change differ in five contexts.

Fig-2- A partnership not a contest.

Trees analogy

Summary

Sources for

The Imperiled Planet

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• The Dominant Animal, Paul & Anne Ehrlich: see also.
• The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin
• When the Killing's Done, T. C. Boyle
• Why Sex is Fun, Jared Diamond
• The Web of Life, Frijof Capra
• The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson
• Our Stolen Future, Theo Colborn
• The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson
• On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

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