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The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution
Springer Verlag (2019)
Abstract
This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the world’s leading interdisciplinary ecologists – Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options – both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research – for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.Author's Profile
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Biological Consensus Mechanisms: The Future of Coexistence
From the contradictions inherent to society’s view of a pastoral, Arcadian wilderness to that of an opposite brutal, indifferent biosphere, the evolution of Homo sapiens looks to be dynamically challenged in future generations. What kinds of moral and scientific imperatives are sufficiently robust t... see more
The Varieties of Social Contracts
We examine some eighteenth- and nineteenth-century views on vegetarianism as a prelude to the post-Cartesian rejection of the concept of animals as mechanisms. This, in turn, segues into the essential revisitation of a mechanistic modality in contemporary de-extinction and re-wilding scenarios by di... see more
Human Contradictions
Discussing contradictions in the history of ornithology and taxonomic literature, as well as the myriad populartion vogues of natural history and pictorial adventures, we examine Darwin’s own personal evolution and its likely impact on his views regarding natural selection. Compounding that legacy o... see more
“…As Far as the Microscope Reveals…”
Rethinking natural selection, the blurred components of twenty-first-century taxonomy, and the ever-escalating stakes applied to hybrid biology and even entire ecosystems, the anthropic principle enters the fray like never before. We consider new types of measurement to reconcile mystery individuals... see more
A Biosphere in Flux
From single nucleotide polymorphisms, phospholipids, cell membranes, and entire genotypes to hybrid species and variants, the biology commandeering our current rapidity of change impacts the probability that the powers of natural selection are wildly fluctuating. Data pertaining to re-evolution has ... see more
Taxonomic Uncertainties
The history of taxonomy has arrived, in the twenty-first century, at a formidable juncture in the heart of the Anthropocene, suggesting that taxa may be so stressed as to have broadly hybridized at levels we cannot even discern. New rules of evolution are surfacing, and one of the most critical ques... see more
Between the Theoretical and the Hypothetical
A broad examination of numerous unresolved gaps in the scientific and cultural embrace of ecological non-violence concludes with Jain intimations of a socially viable contract with nature. This is in stark opposition to a history of human subjugation of nature, our largely undeviating tendency to wa... see more
Introduction
In this chapter we examine the goal of confronting and elaborating upon the outlines of evolutionary theory within a framework that collaborates in the invention of an all-inclusive construct, namely, the survival of a compassionate, sustainable humanity. Examples of its neural network and biologica... see more
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