Man's role in changing the face of the earth
"Man's role in changing the face of the earth is the first large-scale evaluation of what has happened and what is happening to the earth under man's impress. Presented at an international symposium organized by the Werner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and held at Princeton in June 1955, these papers focus viewpoints from nearly all fields of knowledge upon man's capacity to transform his physical-biological environment and upon his cumulative and irreversible alterations of the earth. In these pages fifty-three contributing scholars provide important insights into a pioneer field of study"--Jacket flap
Print Book, English, [1956]
Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, [1956]