Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications explores the evolution of human success and its ethical implications, considering factors such as population size, geographical range, and ecological dominance. It examines whether human-driven climate change and biodiversity destruction require a rethinking of the meaning of human success.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications delves into the multifaceted aspects of human success, drawing upon insights from renowned paleobiologists, anthropologists, geologists, philosophers of science, and ethicists. It explores the evolution of the human species in terms of success-linked metrics, such as population size and geographical range, and investigates how it has come to dominate ecological systems across the globe. The book also examines the ethical implications of this dominance, including the consequences of human-driven climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Through a series of thought-provoking essays, this book encourages readers to contemplate the factors that have contributed to our apparent evolutionary success and what these achievements mean for the future of our species.

Paleobiologists, anthropologists, geologists, philosophers of science, and ethicists contribute to the book Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, which explores human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. It examines 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. The book also examines the ethical implications of this dominance, including the consequences of human-driven climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Through a series of thought-provoking essays, this book encourages readers to contemplate the factors that have contributed to our apparent evolutionary success and what these achievements mean for the future of our species.

Weight: 630g
Dimension: 164 x 244 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780190096168