This book is a provocative and invigorating real-time exploration of the future of human evolution by two of the worlds leading interdisciplinary ecologists Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison. Steeped in a rich multitude of the sciences and humanities, the book enshrines an elegant narrative that is highly empathetic, personal, scientifically wide-ranging and original. It focuses on the geo-positioning of the human Self and its corresponding species. The book's overarching viewpoints and poignant through-story examine and powerfully challenge concepts associated historically with assertions of human superiority over all other life forms. Ultimately, The Hypothetical Species: Variables of Human Evolution is a deeply considered treatise on the ecological and psychological state of humanity and her options both within, and outside the rubrics of evolutionary research for survival. This important work is beautifully presented with nearly 200 diverse illustrations, and is introduced with a foreword by famed paleobiologist, Dr. Melanie DeVore.
| 1 Introduction |
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When Philosophy Confronts Trillions of Particulars |
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Different Measures of the World |
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Differentiating Meaning Within the Anthropocene |
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| 2 Between the Theoretical and the Hypothetical |
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Anthropic Individuals and Multiplicities |
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The Paradox and Complexity of Species Definitions |
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Contemporary Hieroglyphics |
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Biological Differentiations |
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What Can We Glean of the Other? |
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Altruism in the Biosphere |
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The Jain Orientation to Ecology |
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| 3 Taxonomic Uncertainties |
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Legacies of Aristotle, Linnaeus, and Darwin |
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| 4 A Biosphere in Flux |
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| 5 "...As Far as the Microscope Reveals..." |
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A Proliferation of Syntheses |
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It's Still All About People |
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| 6 Human Contradictions |
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Biological Fellowships and Falling-Outs |
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Enduring Contradictions Within Natural History |
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Epiphanies and Radical Shifts in the Human Organism |
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Formulating the History of an Idea |
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Ethical Suasion: The Tipping Point for Compassion Drift from the Individual to the Species |
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| 7 The Varieties of Social Contracts |
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The Embrace of Individual and Collective Non-violence in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
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Exile from the Garden of Eden |
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The Valuation of Human Nature |
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| 8 Biological Consensus Mechanisms: The Future of Coexistence |
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Safeguarding the Biosphere |
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Emblematic Windows on Future Evolution |
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Vicissitudes and Pathways of Biological Security |
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Biological Complexities of the Truth |
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Collective Consensus: The Future of Coexistence |
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Adaptation Versus Compensation: The Anthropocenic Double Bind |
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Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, partners who between them have authored over 50 books and written, directed and produced some 170 films, a prolific body of work that has been read, translated and/or broadcast around the world, have been married for more than thirty years. Their field research across the disciplines of aesthetics, comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and philosophy, ecology and ethics, in nearly 100 countries, has served as a telling example of what two people deeply in love with one another can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to others of all species.
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