In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate.
The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point.
In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate.
The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point.
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way Out of a Climate Crisis
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The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way Out of a Climate Crisis
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| ISBN-13: | 9780520380493 |
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| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Publication date: | 03/23/2021 |
| Series: | Great Transformations , #2 |
| Edition description: | First Edition |
| Pages: | 248 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d) |