Tag: Multispecies

Darwinizing Gaia Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)


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English | December 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0262549522 | 272 pages | PDF | 4.05 Mb
A reinterpretation of James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution.

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The Horse in My Blood Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains


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English | ISBN: 1805392956 | 2024 | 210 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 3 MB
A fascinating interspecies relationship can be seen among the horse breeding pastoralists in the Altai and Saian Mountains of Inner Asia. Victoria Soyan Peemot herself grew up in a community with close human-horse relationships and uses her knowledge of the local language and horsemanship practices. Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, she engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.

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Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia


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English | ISBN: 1498521843 | 2016 | 148 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota. Cynthia T. Fowler describes how the Kodi people coordinate their mundane and ritual practices with polychaetes and celestial bodies, and how this synchrony encourages and is encouraged by social and ecological variations. Fowler grounds her anthropogenic environmental research with information from geospatial science, marine ecology, astronomy, physics, and astrophysics.

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