Humans Can Increase Biodiversity: Archaeologists from MESH and University of Tübingen Study the Role of the Evolving Human Niche in Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity Dynamics in Latest Publication
Cultural diversity is likely to have an overall positive effect on the biodiversity of ecosystems. The homogenization of human life forms may therefore be regarded as an important motor of the ongoing major extinction events in the ‘Age of Humans’ (Anthropocene). Shumon T. Hussain from the University of Cologne’s Research Hub “Multidisciplinary Studies in the Humanities” (MESH) and Chris Baumann from the University of Tübingen come to this conclusion in their recent article ‘The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, paleo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past’ published in the renowned journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The article fits into the current thematic focus ‘Multispecies Conviviality’ of the University of MESH.
Reference
Hussain, S., Baumann, C. 2024. The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 08 April 2024. Link
