Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels : how human values evolve

Publication Data

• Title Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels : how human values evolve
• Author Ian Morris
• Contributors Richard Seaford, Jonathan D. Spence, Christine M. Korsgaard, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Macedo
• Publisher Princeton University Press
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Princeton
• Language English

Contents

Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs
Foragers
Farmers
Fossil Fuels
The Evolution of Values : Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come
On the Ideology of Imagining That "Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs" / Richard Seaford
But What Was It Really Like? : The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values / Jonathan D. Spence
Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self / Christine M. Korsgaard
When the Lights Go Out : Human Values after the Collapse of Civilization / Margaret Atwood
My Correct Views on Everything / Ian Morris.

Topics

• Social values :: History
• Social evolution :: History
• Social change :: History
• Power resources :: Social aspects :: History
• Hunting and gathering societies :: History
• Agriculture :: Social aspects :: History
• Fossil fuels :: Social aspects :: History
• Civilization :: History
• Civilization :: Forecasting

Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels : how human values evolve by Ian Morris. ISBN 9780691160399. Published by Princeton University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.