Instead evolutionary history reads like a well written how to manual and in this case the instruction is how to enlarge and in this case the instruction is how to enlarge we use cookies to enhance your experience on our websiteby continuing to use our website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. We tend to see history and evolution springing from separate roots one grounded in the human world and the other in the natural world human beings have however become probably the most powerful species shaping evolution today and human caused evolution in other species has probably been the most important force shaping human history this book introduces readers to evolutionary history a . Evolutionary history uniting history and biology to understand life on earth studies in environment and history new york cambridge university press 2011 pp xxi 216 cloth 9000 paper 2299. Evolutionary history uniting history and biology to understand life on earth xviii 216 pp illus tables index cambridge cambridge university press 2011 2299 pa per in a 2008 focus section in this very journal jane maienschein manfred laubichler and andrea loettgers attempted to answer the question how. Ed russells evolutionary history is a superb book that promises to fundamentally change the way we understand the past by uniting insights from evolutionary biology with those from the history of technology and the environment russell brilliantly demonstrates that a co evolutionary tango between humans and nature has been at the heart of much historical change many today believe that innovative englishmen created the industrial revolution on their own but russell will convince you that