02393nam a22003498a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002400224082001400248100003000262245012500292264005200417300005900469336002600528337002600554338003600580490003900616500007300655520112600728650002401854776003501878830004001913856007101953999001902024CR9780511974267UkCbUP20180107143413.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||101011s2011||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511974267 (ebook)  z9780521762113 (hardback)  z9780521745093 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aQH366.2 b.R88 201100a576.82221 aRussell, Edmund,eauthor.10aEvolutionary History :bUniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth / [electronic resource]cEdmund Russell. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2011.  a1 online resource (240 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aStudies in Environment and History  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aWe tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots, one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world. Human beings have, however, become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today, and human-caused evolution in other species has probably been the most important force shaping human history. This book introduces readers to evolutionary history, a new field that unites history and biology to create a fuller understanding of the past than either can produce on its own. Evolutionary history can stimulate surprising new hypotheses for any field of history and evolutionary biology. How many art historians would have guessed that sculpture encouraged the evolution of tuskless elephants? How many biologists would have predicted that human poverty would accelerate animal evolution? How many military historians would have suspected that plant evolution would convert a counter-insurgency strategy into a rebel subsidy? With examples from around the globe, this book will help readers see the broadest patterns of history and the details of their own life in a new light. 0aEvolution (Biology)08iPrint version: z9780521762113 0aStudies in Environment and History.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974267zCambridge Books Online  c236593d236593