Portera posits that human niche construction can provide insight into how aesthetic standards develop within human societies and cultures. Standards of beauty tend to evolve through cultural niche construction behavior and biological evolution.
Martin’s essay examines the influence of the human-built environment on the evolution of other species. Studying these relationships offers us a new way of thinking about human niche construction and the Anthropocene.
Ellis argues that the unparalleled capacity of human societies to construct ecological niches at growing social and spatial scales has allowed them to alter the Earth permanently and profoundly.
David Bello explores the fraught struggle between humans and locusts for occupancy of the agricultural niches created by farmers during China’s Qing dynasty.
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, David Dunér scrutinizes the underlying suppositions involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) research, particularly the last three factors of the Drake equation.
Is it possible to conserve the Galápagos Islands as a “natural laboratory” in the Anthropocene?
This article suggests an alternative understanding of global warming and gives a thermodynamic and historical account of ecological destruction.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow Helen Rozwadowski is interviewed on her 2018 book, Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans.
Edmund Russell on evolutionary history. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
