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Nature's Greatest Success

How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity

AvRobert N. Spengler III

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force—and the science behind it. Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As Robert N. Spengler shows, domestication was the result of an evolutionary process in which people played a role only unwittingly and as actors in a numberless cast that spanned the plant and animal kingdoms. Nature's Greatest Success is the first book to bring together recent scientific discoveries and fascinating ongoing research to provide a systematic account of not only how agriculture really developed but why. Through fifteen chapters, this book dives deep into the complex processes that drove domestication and the various roles that plants and animals, including humans, played in bringing about those changes. At the intersection of popular history, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, Nature's Greatest Success offers a revolutionary account of humanity not at the apex of nature but deeply embedded in the natural world and the evolutionary processes that continue to guide it even today.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 29 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:512
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520435834

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Robert N. Spengler III directs the Fruits of Eurasia: Domestication and Dispersal research project and leads the Domestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. He is author of the book Fruit from the Sands and has published dozens of scholarly articles while running research projects across Central Asia.

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"An astute overview of a burning historical controversy."

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Contents Preface 1. The Domestication Age2. What Is Domestication?3. Domestication Is Occurring All around You4. Reframing Domestication as Evolution5. Domestication Was Inevitable6. Adaptability and Domestication7. Developmental Plasticity8. Weed Domestication9. Evolutionary Origins of Farming10. Natura Non Facit Saltum11. Primate Orchards12. Megafruits13. Small-Seeded Annuals14. The Insularity Syndrome15. Visualizing the Origins AfterwordCommon and Scientific NamesNotesReferencesIndex

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