عنوان

Coming home to the Pleistocene

(Number (ISBN

1417594233

(Number (ISBN

159726847X

(Number (ISBN

9781417594238

(Number (ISBN

9781597268479

Number

b600362

Title Proper

Coming home to the Pleistocene

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Paul Shepard; edited by Florence R. Shepard.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Washington, D.C.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Island Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xi, 195 pages)

Text of Note

"A Shearwater book"--Title page verso.

Text of Note

The relevance of the past --; Getting a genome --; How we once lived --; How the mind once lived --; Savages again --; Ramancing the potato --; The cowboy alternative --; Wildness and wilderness --; The new mosaic --; a primal closure.

Text of Note

Paul Shepard was one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. Seminal works like The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, Thinking Animals, and Nature and Madness introduced readers to new and provocative ideas about humanity and its relationship to the natural world. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Shepard returned repeatedly to his guiding theme, the central tenet of his thought: that our essential human nature is a product of our genetic heritage, formed through thousands of years of evolution during the Pleistocene epoch, and that the current subversion of that Pleistocene heritage lies at the heart of today's ecological and social ills. Coming Home to the Pleistocene provides the fullest explanation of that theme. The book explicitly addresses the fundamental question raised by Shepard's work: What can we do to re-create a life more in tune with our genetic roots? In this book, Shepard presents concrete suggestions for fostering the kinds of ecological settings and cultural practices that are optimal for human health and well-being.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Nature and nurture.

Sociobiology.

Class number

Book number

Paul Shepard; edited by Florence R. Shepard.

Florence R Shepard

Paul Shepard

Electronic name

[Book]

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