{"product_id":"foragers-farmers-and-fossil-fuels-how-human-values-evolve-9780691175898","title":"Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ian Morris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Morris has thrown another curveball for social science. In this disarmingly readable book, which takes us from prehistory to the present, he offers a new theory of human culture, linking it firmly to economic fundamentals and how humans obtained their energy and resources from nature. This is bold, erudite, and provocative.\u003cb\u003e--Daron Acemoglu, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHow Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Morris has emerged in recent years as one of the great big thinkers in history, archaeology, and anthropology, writing books that set people talking and thinking. I found delightful things in every chapter of\u003ci\u003eForagers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels\u003c\/i\u003e, interesting enough that I found myself sharing them with family over dinner. The breadth of reading and the command of the subject are just dazzling. His major argument--that value systems adapt themselves to ambient energy structures, in the same way that an organism adapts to its niche--is fascinating.\u003cb\u003e--Daniel Lord Smail, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Deep History and the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important and stylistically excellent book written from a sophisticated materialist perspective. It is eminently readable, lively, and with clearly stated arguments explored in a systematic fashion. In a sense, it follows up on Jared Diamond's work on agricultural origins, and it parallels Steven Pinker's book on warfare in depicting a world that is culturally evolving in a certain direction. \u003ci\u003eForagers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels\u003c\/i\u003e should have a serious impact.\u003cb\u003e--Chris Boehm, author of \u003ci\u003eMoral Origins: The Evolution of Altruism, Virtue, and Shame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45298635243671,"sku":"9780691175898","price":2364.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691175898.webp?v=1767105436","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/foragers-farmers-and-fossil-fuels-how-human-values-evolve-9780691175898","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}