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Be Fruitful and Multiply : How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth / Donald Worster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Worster, Donald, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fertility, Human--Environmental aspects.
- Fertility, Human.
- Fertility, Human--History.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Human beings.
- Human beings--Effect of technological innovations on--History.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Informational works
- Creative nonfiction
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 309 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Human nature
- Out of Africa
- The agrarian whip
- Humpty Dumpty and the fate of power
- The discovery of second earth
- Dreams of infinite wealth
- The good muck
- The empty cradle of hope
- Building the ecological civilization
- Epilogue. This fertile earth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780300286199
- OCLC:
- 1535406822
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