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In mankind’s more than 100,000 time history, we've evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Globe to a complex global world manipulating every inches of it. In a nutshell, we have become the dominant canine. Why, then, are we creating a global that threatens our own varieties? What can we do to change the existing trajectory toward more climate change, increased famine, and epidemic disease?
Renowned Stanford researchers Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich think that intelligently handling those questions will depend on a clear knowledge of how we advanced and how and why we’re changing the earth in ways that darken our descendants’ future. The Dominant Pet arms readers your knowledge, tracing the interplay between environmental change and genetic and cultural progression since the dawn of mankind. In lucid and engaging prose, they illustrate how Homo sapiens designed to their area, eventually expanding the vibrant civilizations, vast clinical knowledge, and scientific wizardry we realize today.
But the Ehrlichs also explore the flip part of this triumphant storyline of invention and conquest. Even as we clear forests to raise vegetation and build metropolitan areas, lace the continents with highways, and create chemicals nothing you've seen prior seen in nature, we may be undermining our own supremacy. The dangers of environmental damage are obvious from the daily headlines, however the outcome is definately not destined. Humanity can again adjust—if we learn from our evolutionary history.
Those lessons are crystallized inside the Dominant Dog. Tackling the essential obstacle of the real human predicament, Paul and Anne Ehrlich offer a vibrant and unique exploration of our origins, our progression, and our future.
