Nature's Greatest Success
Book • 2025
Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity dives deep into the complex processes that drove domestication and the various roles that plants and animals, including humans, played in bringing about those changes.
At the intersection of popular history, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, the book offers a revolutionary account of humanity not at the apex of nature but deeply embedded in the natural world and the evolutionary processes that continue to guide it even today.
The book explores the complex dynamics behind domestication and the roles of plants, animals, and humans in shaping it.
Blending history, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, it repositions humanity not as nature's master, but as a participant in ongoing evolutionary processes.
At the intersection of popular history, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, the book offers a revolutionary account of humanity not at the apex of nature but deeply embedded in the natural world and the evolutionary processes that continue to guide it even today.
The book explores the complex dynamics behind domestication and the roles of plants, animals, and humans in shaping it.
Blending history, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, it repositions humanity not as nature's master, but as a participant in ongoing evolutionary processes.
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Robert N. Spengler, "Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity" (Univ of California Press, 2025)