Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications 1st Hugh Desmond

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190096160
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190096168
• Author(s): Hugh Desmond, Grant Ramsey

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions from leading paleobiologists, anthropologists, geologists, philosophers of science, and ethicists. It considers how the human species grew in success-linked metrics, such as population size and geographical range, and how it came to dominate ecological systems across the globe. It probes whether the consequences of that dominance, such as human-driven climate change and the destruction of biodiversity, mandate a rethinking of the meaning of human success. The essays in this book urge us to reflect on what has led to our apparent evolutionary success―and, most importantly, what this success implies for the future of our species.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Manifold Challenges to Understanding Human Success Hugh Desmond and Grant Ramsey

Part I: What is Evolutionary Success?

2. Evolutionary Success: Standards of Value Dan McShea

3. Human Success: A Contextual and Pluralistic View Marion Hourdequin

4. Human success as a complex of autonomy, adaptation, and niche construction Bernd Rosslenbroich

Part II: Explaining Human Success 5. The Origin and Evolution of Human Uniqueness Geerat Vermeij

6. Wanderlust: A View from Deep Time of Dispersal, Persistence, and Human Success Susan Antón

7. Culture as a life-history character: the cognitive continuum in primates and hominins Matt Grove

8. A Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Perspective on Human Success Kathryn Demps and Peter Richerson

Part III. Human Success in the Anthropocene

9. Anthropocene patterns in stratigraphy as a perspective on human success Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Colin Waters

10. Utter success and extensive inequity: Assessing processes, patterns, and outcomes of the human niche in the Anthropocene Agustín Fuentes

11. Adaptability and the Continuation of Human Origins Richard Potts

12. Evolving Measures of Moral Success Allen Buchanan and Rachell Powell

13. Future Human Success: Beyond Techno-Libertarianism Hugh Desmond

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