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- First of its kind to analytically integrate evolutionary and molecular biology with new ethology and biosemiotics
- Authored by two of the world's leading interdisciplinary ecologists
- Provides an intellectual journey that argues in favor of a sustainable and compassionate human future
- Characterizes fundamental prerequisites for the future of robust biodiversity on Earth
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options – both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research – for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dancing Star Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Hypothetical Species
Book Subtitle: Variables of Human Evolution
Authors: Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11319-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11318-6Published: 10 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11319-3Published: 28 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 318
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 205 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Nature, Ecology