Sapiens et le climat | Olivier Postel-Vinay

EAN : 9782258200937

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Pages : 352

Size : 120 x 210 mm

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Homo Sapiens and Climate

Olivier Postel-Vinay

Collection : La Cité

Release date : 08/09/2022

This rigorously argued and documented essay will overturn our vision of climate as a constituent element of human evolution. How disruption and catastrophes have always led mankind to reinvent itself: beyond simplistic speeches, this is a reflection that is essential to our understanding of evolution.

From the Paleolithic era to the present day, Homo Sapiens has been confronted with natural events that are often rapid, brutal and far-reaching. For better or for worse. Because, even though our species may have almost been eradicated, even though civilisations have collapsed, even though we have recently known famines,... From the Paleolithic era to the present day, Homo Sapiens has been confronted with natural events that are often rapid, brutal and far-reaching. For better or for worse. Because, even though our species may have almost been eradicated, even though civilisations have collapsed, even though we have recently known famines, wars and epidemics, at such times we have shown a great capacity for resilience. The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution were born out of the climate crisis of the 17th century. The 21st-century crisis may go the same way. Long rejected by historians, the idea that the vagaries of climate sometimes play a driving role in history is being explored by a growing number of specialists. The most recent studies, particularly in the
American scientific literature, offer the possibility of revisiting the human adventure in relation to
climate change. Thus we learn, for example, how Homo Sapiens coped with the first mega-droughts in history, and how the Roman civilisation was swept away by a major climatic change, and how the Vikings settled in Greenland — which once was "green" — thanks to a break in the weather in the Middle Ages that lasted several hundred years.

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EAN : 9782258200937

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Pages : 352

Size : 120 x 210 mm

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