... will be an opportunity to explore common concerns in a different context. This introductory chapter first discusses Chinese conceptions about evolutionary science and its influence on Chinese socialism, and then describes two popular characters in twentieth-century paleoanthropology—Peking Man and Wild Man—which...

... of wild men in a royal court and points to the construction of royal sovereignty on the fragile boundary between the domestic and the wild, the sovereign and the beast. animality Bal des Ardents Charles VI of France clothing disguise Froissart Jean hair skin wild man Alexandrine bear bearskin...

...Accounts of wild children exemplify the great variety of conceptual devices that eighteenth-century Europe had for talking about savagery and civilization. These devices range from pseudoscientific inquiries into humanity's original nature and institutional schemes for improving society through...

...An ecocentric poem by Gary Snyder that nods toward chaotic planetary forces and the embodied wisdom of adaptive organisms such as redwood trees, evoking a wild dance millions of years in the making that dwarfs recent human achievements. fires and fire Snyder Gary “Wildfire News” Snyder ecocentric...

... to wildness” as well as a functional, traditional means of land conservation. The chapter discusses other types of “groves” in which vital ecosystem processes are preserved due to their sacred status. The chapter notes the vital recycling role that decomposers play, concluding with the assertion that if any...

...Bushmeat commerce currently removes as much as five million metric tons of wild animal biomass per year from the Congo Basin ecosystem—an amount that is completely unsustainable. It also threatens the well-being and very existence of the three African great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos...

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...This chapter discusses how the process of economic growth leads to more habitat destruction and more inhumane treatment of wild animals. It considers two alternatives to growth: economic degrowth and the steady state economy. While degrowth, also known as “recession,” is hardly a viable policy goal...

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... by William Temple Hornaday, to the modern San Diego Wild Animal Park, this chapter traces the transition from menageries designed to entertain to zoological parks designed to educate, and finally to centers of research, breeding and preservation of endangered species. Zoos that once competed to be the only...

... simultaneously (not shown). This chapter reviews the evidence for maternal effects in wild ungulate populations, discussing their prevalence and the mechanisms by which they are mediated. The analysis reveals that maternal effects contribute not only to observed phenotypic diversity in wild ungulates but also...

... ability of group-selected populations density cycles with low rates of population growth End of the McCauley Era interaction of genetics and ecology outbreaks with high rates of population growth relaxation of group selection variation of fitness within a wild population Our experiments...

... contractual, more chaotic public “space”. This is what Habermas calls the “wild sphere”. This chapter also discusses the role of history and sexuality in the debates conducted as part of a shared conversation between members of a religious community and scholars. Fraser Nancy Habermas Jürgen internet...

... traits gestation length, age at first parturition, and interbirth interval (after a surviving infant) for a few example species. In the absence of more detailed information, we coded nutrient availability as binary: wild if a population had no access to human-made food and provisioned if it had access...

... of tinkering, of bricolage, that Claude Lévi-Strauss used to characterize what he understood to be wild thought, or science of the concrete. The chapter concludes by arguing that there is a common feature inherent in all creative activities, be it scientific or artistic. It is their search for novelty. What...

...This chapter considers the treatment of wild elephants. In doing so, it examines several topics that have significant consequences, approaching each from an elephant's point of view: How will the consequences affect elephants individually or collectively, physically and psychologically? And what...

...This chapter focuses on yĕrèn (“wild people”), who were believed to be living primates, distant relatives of modern humans. It was only in the closing years of the Cultural Revolution that widespread interest in yĕrèn began to take off, generating a “yĕrèn...

... in the thirteenth-century Old French Crusade Cycle and the fourteenth-century Tristan de Nanteuil (Tristan of Nanteuil). Both epics recount the story of a wild boy, raised by an animal in the forest, who must become fully human in order to assume his place in a noble genealogy. These stories assume...

... and concealed data structures, a fundamental incommensurability exists between making, imaging, and speech. In the wake of this shift into the elusive, this essay explores the desire to turn wordlessly wild by literally becoming a burrowing badger or a grazing goat. This preoccupation with achieving...

...This chapter uses Hwesu S. Murray v. National Broadcasting Company, Inc., (1987) as a theoretical tool for analysing three films: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1977); Kasi Lemmon’s The Caveman’s Valentine (2001); and Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). Considering the Court’s...