The evolutionary roots of our environmental problems: Toward a Darwinian ecology

DJ Penn - The quarterly review of biology, 2003‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
It is widely acknowledged that we need to stabilize population growth and reduce our
environmental impact; however, there is little consensus about how we might achieve these …

Extinction of birds in Eastern Polynesia: a review of the record, and comparisons with other Pacific Island groups

DW Steadman - Journal of Archaeological Science, 1989‏ - Elsevier
The study of bones from archaeological sites in Eastern Polynesia has revealed much late
Holocene extinction of birds. Because this extinction has been found in all Eastern …

Prehistoric extinctions of Pacific island birds: biodiversity meets zooarchaeology

DW Steadman - Science, 1995‏ - science.org
On tropical Pacific islands, a human-caused" biodiversity crisis" began thousands of years
ago and has nearly run its course. Bones identified from archaeological sites show that most …

[ספר][B] The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific

G Irwin - 1992‏ - books.google.com
The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is one of the most remarkable episodes of
human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography …

The archaeological record of human impacts on animal populations

DK Grayson - Journal of World Prehistory, 2001‏ - Springer
Recent archaeological research has fundamentally altered our understanding of the scope
of past human impacts on nondomesticated animal populations. Predictions derived from …

A requiem for North American overkill

DK Grayson, DJ Meltzer - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2003‏ - Elsevier
The argument that human hunters were responsible for the extinction of a wide variety of
large Pleistocene mammals emerged in western Europe during the 1860s, alongside the …

The importance of birds as browsers, pollinators and seed dispersers in New Zealand forests

MN Clout, JR Hay - New Zealand journal of ecology, 1989‏ - JSTOR
New Zealand's forest plants evolved in the absence of mammalian herbivores, but subject to
the attentions of a variety of other animals. Insects are and probably were, the primary …

[ספר][B] Betrayal of science and reason: how anti-environmental rhetoric threatens our future.

PR Ehrlich, AH Ehrlich - 1996‏ - cabidigitallibrary.org
An examination is presented of the reality and importance of global environmental problems,
arguing that they need to be taken seriously and that people who downplay such problems …

Colonization of islands by humans: A biogeographical perspective

WF Keegan, JM Diamond - Advances in archaeological method and theory, 1987‏ - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter presents a worldwide summary of island colonization by
preindustrial peoples and a history of who colonized what and when. It describes three …

Energy conservation and the evolution of flightlessness in birds

BK McNab - The American Naturalist, 1994‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
I examine the hypothesis that energy conservation contributes to the evolution of a flightless
condition in birds by comparing the factors that correlate with basal rate of metabolism in …