BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past

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BioFutures and the Legacy of Our Past is written by Derek Gatherer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1036449068 (ISBN 10) and 9781036449063 (ISBN 13).

This book examines our possible biological future in the light of our evolutionary past. Beginning with out-of-Africa, through the development of agriculture to cities, modern technology and modern social structures, the last 75,000 years or so have been a story of attempts to distance ourselves from nature, to achieve an escape velocity that will liberate us from the gravitational pull of our evolutionary heritage. Much of that has been successful, but it has come at an immense cost to the rest of the planet. If we do not learn to deal with our evolutionary heritage in new ways, then we may shortly become part of the mass extinction event we have started. The problems which beset us – climate change, famine, migration, pandemics – have their origins in our biology. Solutions to these issues must take our biology into account, or they will fail.