- Gebundene Ausgabe: 64 Seiten
- Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (5. Oktober 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0297842587
- ISBN-13: 978-0297842583
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 18 x 11,2 x 1,2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 775.449 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This slim volume is part of "Darwinism Today", a series of provocative short books by an international group of leading thinkers in the field of evolutionary theory and its impact on our society. The series developed out of a programme of Darwin Seminars at the London School of Economics. Each essay stands alone as a topic and is about 14,000 words long. Topics include parenting, labour, and genetics. The series is edited by Helena Cronin and Oliver Curry and aims to reach a wide readership.
Colin Tudge argues against the traditional belief that agriculture began in the Middle East a mere 10,000 years ago and then spread out around the world. In this readable and provocative essay, Tudge claims that from at least 40,000 years ago (the late Palaeolithic), people were "managing their environment to such an extent that they can properly be called 'proto-farmers' ". He goes on to argue that this much earlier development explains the relatively sudden and enormous success of modern humans after that date and their global distribution. Furthermore Tudge claims that the really interesting question is why anyone took up farming at all when "it so obviously beastly". Accordingly "people did not invent agriculture and shout for joy; they drifted or were forced into it, protesting all the way". Tudge equates the success of farming and production of surplus food with human reproductive success and the vicious spiral of population growth. He ends with the somewhat romantic view of our hunting ancestors as "lazy, as lions are" and hopes that "we should learn from them".
This is the stimulating and provocative language of the lecture hall but it translates well in the context of an essay in the best tradition of our Victorian forbears. Colin Tudge is the well-known author of a number of semi-popular books for adults in the general area of anthropology and evolution. He also holds a research fellowship in the Centre for Philosophy at the LSE and is currently editing The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Evolution. --Douglas Palmer
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1 of the 1st 4 titles of a new series, provocative, controversial long essays by today's leading Darwinian thinkers. The Darwin seminars at the LSE have beome a crucial intellectual forum in recent years, attended by leading scientists, social scinetists, journalists, film makers, TV producers and writers as diverse as A.S.Byatt and Douglas Adams. Tapping into the most exciting intellectual revolution of our times, they have presented cutting edge Darwinian ideas from a series of eminent speakers , including the famous, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, to less well known researchers at the cutting edge of today's debates. The series, Darwinism today, consists of a seres of short books, each drawing on the content of 1 of the seminars abd written by many of the leading figures in the Darwinian revolution, writing both on evolutionary ideas and on the applications of these ideas to a wide range of human behaviour. Neanderthals, Bandits and farmers argues against the traditional view that agriculture began in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago. Colin Tudge goes back even further to a race of proto-farmers who may have ousted the hunter gathering Neanderthals. The traditional view is that hunter gathering is hard and that farming made life easier. Colin Tudge turns this notion on it's head.Farming is at least as hard, if not harder. In Genesis it is regarded as a necessary evil. So why did our ancestors make the change?
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Tradition has it that agriculture began in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago and so created the 'Neolithic Revolution' with farming itself accompanied by the first traces of cities, and soon, great leaps in the variety and subtlety of stone tools. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Tradition has it that agriculture began in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago and so created the 'Neolithic Revolution' with farming itself accompanied by the first traces of cities, and soon, great leaps in the variety and subtlety of stone tools. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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interesting, informative, yet overly general read about agriculture
31. Mai 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The title of this book is misleading: banditry is not really discussed, and Colin Fudge's views aren't radically different from the traditional, conventional folk understanding of early agriculture. What he does is make some interesting insights into humans' (reluctant) shift to agriculture, and plays with the historical timeline a bit. He challenges some assumptions and clarifies the blurry beginnings of human farming. The book is interesting and there are many good points and random facts. It does a good job of creating large brushstrokes painting the picture of early agriculture. However, the language is too general, and due to the book's brevity, I failed to get vivid mental images of what is being described. His argument is valid and clearly expressed, but it lacks support and owes itself, as he admits, to conversations he had with thinkers in the field of ecology-anthropology-archeology-etc. This book is a good starting point for a cursory discussion, but lacks the depth to truly support and capture the point he is trying to make. (As is a problem with much philosophy, the language is too broad and the assertions too sweeping.) It would be interesting to read a text challenging Colin's book.
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