Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth

A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope

Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history. Examining how this process led from foraging to the agrarian revolution and then to a capitalist way of life, Worster brings us face to face with a third...