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Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
Brian M Fagan · Yale University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing - not as sport but as sustenance - archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Dan L Flores · Basic Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. As soon as Americans... |
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Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans
John W. Kress · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's... |
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
Chris D. Thomas · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Throughout history we've introduced species and infectious diseases to foreign shores; hunted slow-moving (and slower-reproducing) mammals to extinction; and polluted previously pristine tracts of land.... |
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