Understanding catastrophe.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Darwin College lecturesPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1992Description: 213 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

0521413249

DDC classification:

904.5 UND

Subject: This book examines the immense and varied impact that catastrophic change can have on the development of life on Earth. It examines the way in which evolution itself can procede through genetic jumps of catastrophic proportions. The primal forces of the Earth, manifested in such natural catastrophes as earthquakes and cyclones, and the devastating impact these can have even today on human populations across the world receive extended scrutiny as does the power of famine historically in determining the future of humankind. Also addresses the changing medical and social attitudes to epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis and illustrates our fundamental incapacity to deal with major threats to life and death.

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Includes bibliographic references and index

On cover - "Its impact on life on Earth"

This book examines the immense and varied impact that catastrophic change can have on the development of life on Earth. It examines the way in which evolution itself can procede through genetic jumps of catastrophic proportions. The primal forces of the Earth, manifested in such natural catastrophes as earthquakes and cyclones, and the devastating impact these can have even today on human populations across the world receive extended scrutiny as does the power of famine historically in determining the future of humankind. Also addresses the changing medical and social attitudes to epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis and illustrates our fundamental incapacity to deal with major threats to life and death.

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