Overview
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 successDLand, most importantly, what this success implies for the future of our species.
Full Product Details
Author: Hugh Desmond (Postdoctoral Researcher; Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Researcher; Assistant Professor, CNRS/Paris I; University of Antwerp) ,
Grant Ramsey (Research Professor, Research Professor, KU Leuven)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.70cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 16.30cm
Weight: 0.644kg
ISBN: 9780190096168
ISBN 10: 0190096160
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 08 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
If you want to understand human success, its biological and cultural components, start with this groundbreaking collection. Essays authored by experts from many disciplines—paleoanthropology, biology, philosophy, and more. Top-quality scholarship, jargon free. I feel proud to be part of a community of scholars such as these. * Michael Ruse, Florida State University (Emeritus) * It is worth stressing that the current volume is an excellent collection of scholarship. It is immensely successful in bringing together complex historical narratives of hominin evolution and using them to speculate about how best to understand human success and the collective challenges in striving towards it. * Andrew Buskell, Georgia Institute of Technology *
If you want to understand human success, its biological and cultural components, start with this groundbreaking collection. Essays authored by experts from many disciplines-paleoanthropology, biology, philosophy, and more. Top-quality scholarship, jargon free. I feel proud to be part of a community of scholars such as these. * Michael Ruse, Florida State University (Emeritus) *
Author Information
Hugh Desmond is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz University of Hannover and Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp. He received his PhD from KU Leuven, and has held research and visiting positions at Paris I-Sorbonne, KU Leuven, Princeton University, New York University, and the Hastings Center. His work centers on the philosophy and ethics of science, with particular emphasis on biology. Grant Ramsey is a Research Professor at KU Leuven. He earned his PhD at Duke University and served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame from 2007 until 2016. His work centers on the philosophy of biology, especially the foundations of evolutionary and behavioral biology.
