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The Dual Role of Culture in Evolutionary Play: Anthropogenic Expansion vs. Destruction of Biodiversity

2024-04-03

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A large number of Green discourses blame the human species for the current ecological crisis. However, this description of humanity as the ecocidal culprit serves to conceal the role of humans, in both past and contemporary pre-industrial societies, as custodians of biodiversity. Indigenous societies are known to have conserved their natural resource base for posterity by instituting cultural norms and institution...

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Literature Corpus work: 5875b675-1f20-53b3-a9cf-f2c43d7f9bbd
DOI: 10.32388/cwbmg2.4

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