Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
Book by Ian Morris
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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. ... Google Books
Originally published: 2015
Author: Ian Morris
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we ...
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Ian Morris convincingly demonstrates that the sources of energy available to a given society determine what types of values can thrive in that society. Mr.
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve is a large-scale history of the world through the different modes of production humanity has ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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May 30, 2017 · Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications ...
Mar 22, 2015 · Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications ...
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Mar 22, 2015 · Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad.
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 ...
Sep 2, 2021 · The argument of Ian Morris' Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels is that these timings are not a coincidence. Societies that change their main ...