While this book has relevance to ethnobiology and ecological anthropology, it will also resonate with general anthropologists, including scholars of paleoanthropology. In Schilling’s introductory chapter, he suggests that during the Pleistocene Era, hominins lived sustainably because they sensed their existence was linked to the environment’s well-being. It seems reasonable to me that hominin populations who were successful at transmitting ecological knowledge would share an evolutionary advantage over populations unable to do so. From prehistoric lithics to modern industrial technology, Schilling suggests sustainability is a moral rather than technological concern that depends on Homo sapiens’ views of the natural environment.

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传统的生态知识：向环境可持续性的土著实践学习。由梅利莎·K·尼尔森（Melissa K. Nelson）和丹·先令（Dan Shilling）编辑。2018.剑桥大学出版社，纽约，纽约。276页

尽管这本书与民族生物学和生态人类学有关，但它也会引起包括人类学在内的普通人类学家的共鸣。他在先令的介绍性章节中建议，在更新世时期，人类的生活可持续，因为他们认为人类的存在与环境的福祉息息相关。在我看来，成功地传播生态知识的人族群体与不能做到这一点的群体分享进化优势。从史前石器时代到现代工业技术，席林认为可持续性是道德上的而不是技术上的关注，这取决于智人对自然环境的看法。