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<h1 class="book-info__title"> After Eden<span class="subtitle-colon">:
</span><span class="subtitle">The Evolution of Human Domination</span>
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<div class="book-info__author-prefix al-author-prefix"> By </div>
<div class="al-author-name book-info__author"> <a
class="linked-name js-linked-name book-info__author-link">Kirkpatrick
Sale</a><span class="hidden al-author-delim"></span> </div>
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<div class="book-info__publisher-name">Duke University Press</div>
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href="https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822388517"
class="book-info__doi-link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822388517</a>
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<div class="book-info__isbn-text">ISBN electronic:</div>
<div class="book-info__isbn-number">978-0-8223-8851-7</div>
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<div class="book-info__publication-text">Publication date:</div>
<div class="book-info__publication-date">2006</div>
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<p>When did the human species turn against the planet that we
depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of
resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil,
destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly
increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did
humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the
planet’s resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find
ourselves on a seemingly relentless path toward ecocide?</p>
<p>In After Eden, Kirkpatrick Sale answers these questions in a
radically new way. Integrating research in paleontology,
archaeology, and anthropology, he points to the beginning of
big-game hunting as the origin of Homo sapiens’ estrangement
from the natural world. Sale contends that a new, recognizably
modern human culture based on the hunting of large animals
developed in Africa some 70,000 years ago in response to a
fierce plunge in worldwide temperature triggered by an enormous
volcanic explosion in Asia. Tracing the migration of populations
and the development of hunting thousands of years forward in
time, he shows that hunting became increasingly adversarial in
relation to the environment as people fought over scarce prey
during Europe’s glacial period between 35,000 and 10,000 years
ago. By the end of that era, humans’ idea that they were the
superior species on the planet, free to exploit other species
toward their own ends, was well established.</p>
<p>After Eden is a sobering tale, but not one without hope. Sale
asserts that Homo erectus, the variation of the hominid species
that preceded Homo sapiens and survived for nearly two million
years, did not attempt to dominate the environment. He contends
that vestiges of this more ecologically sound way of life exist
today—in some tribal societies, in the central teachings of
Hinduism and Buddhism, and in the core principles of the
worldwide environmental movement—offering redemptive
possibilities for ourselves and for the planet.</p>
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