Climate, Fire and Human Evolution: The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene 1st Edition Andrew 331922512X 9783319225128

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• ISBN 10: 331922512X
• ISBN 13: 9783319225128
• Author: Andrew Y. Glikson

The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo – which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both—biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Early Earth Systems

Chapter 2: Phanerozoic Life and Mass Extinctions of Species

Chapter 3: Cenozoic Biological Evolution (by Colin Groves)

Chapter 4: Fire and the Biosphere

Chapter 5: The Anthropocene

Chapter 6: Rare Earth

Chapter 7: Prometheus: An Epilogue

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