On the backs of tortoises : Darwin, the Galápagos, and the fate of an evolutionary Eden / Elizabeth Hennessy
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xix, 310 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780300249156
- 0300249152
- Galapagos tortoise
- Galapagos tortoise -- Conservation
- Rare reptiles -- Galapagos Islands
- Extinct reptiles -- Galapagos Islands
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Galapagos Islands
- Restoration ecology -- Galapagos Islands
- Galapagos Islands -- Environmental conditions
- Reptiles rares -- Galápagos
- Reptiles disparus -- Galápagos
- Homme -- Influence sur la nature -- Galápagos
- Réhabilitation (Écologie) -- Galápagos
- Galápagos -- Conditions environnementales
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ichthyology & Herpetology
- Ecology
- Extinct reptiles
- Galapagos tortoise
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Rare reptiles
- Restoration ecology
- Galapagos Islands
- 508.866/5 23
- QH198.G3 H455 2019eb
- QL666.C584 H46 2019
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The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes--the giant tortoises--as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution. The tortoises, Elizabeth Hennessy demonstrates, are not prehistoric, but rather microcosms whose stories show how deeply human and nonhuman life are entangled. In a world where evolution is thoroughly shaped by global history, Hennessy puts forward a vision for conservation based on reckoning with the past, rather than trying to erase it
Includes bibliographical references and index
What we stand on -- In Darwin's footsteps -- What's in a name? -- The many worlds at world's end -- Making a natural laboratory -- Restoring evolution -- Laboratory life -- All the way down
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