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Home Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Christine M. Korsgaard Jonathan D. Spence Margaret Atwood Richard Seaford Stephen Macedo Ian Morris
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  • Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve - 9780691160399
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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris, author of the best-selling Why the West Rules--for Now, explains why. The result is a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past--and for what might happen next. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need--from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values.In tiny forager bands, people who value equality but are ready to settle problems violently do better than those who aren't; in laaren't; in large farming societies, people who value hierarchy and are less willing to use violence do best; and in huge fossil-fuel societies, the pendulum has swung back toward equality but even further away from violence.

But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out- at some point fairly soon - not to be useful anymore.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
March 22, 2015
Pages
369
ISBN
9780691160399
Format
Hardback
About the author
Ian Morris is the Willard Professor of Classics and a fellow of the Stanford Archaeology Center at Stanford University. He has directed excavations in Italy and Greece and has published thirteen previous books, including "Why the West Rules--for Now "(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), "The Measure of Civilization "(Princeton), and "War! What Is It Good For?" (FSG). He lives in Boulder Creek, California.

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