Eco Homo
Subtitle: How the Human Being Emerged from the Cataclysmic History of the Earth
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: June 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780465018031
Table of contents: title: Ecological changes and primate evolution : the prime movers of change -- Hypothesis 1 : the earth cools and the gorilla evolves in montane isolation -- Hypothesis 2 : the African Western Rift Valley split human ancestors off from chimps -- Hypothesis 3 : the developing Sahara split hominids off from chimps -- Hypothesis 4 : Australopithecines adapt to an expanding savanna-grassland environment -- Hypothesis 5 : the 2.8-million-year-old paleoclimatic event effects the evolutionary origin of the genus homo -- Hypothesis 6 : a "paleoclimatic pump" expels homo erectus out of Africa -- Hypothesis 7 : Neanderthals and mitochondrial eve dance a pas de deux to the rhythm of climate change -- Hypothesis 8 : superorganic culture allows modern humans to conquer the ice age and the new world -- Implications: future human evolution, overpopulation, global warming, pollution, and our ecological survival.