The Evolution of Power Quotes

“Life is a perpetual struggle against disruption and chaos.”
― Geerat J. Vermeij, The Evolution of Power: A New Understanding of the History of Life

“The evolution of technologically advanced Homo sapiens is one of the few truly singular events in the history of life. No species before us wielded anything close to as much power as our species, either individually or collectively, and no singe species has so profoundly altered planet Earth geologically and biologically. We are the first species to create an entire economy, with all of the functions that in the rest of the biosphere would be performed by multiple species. This novel economy, built on top of the remaining biosphere, has in effect become a one-species monopoly, a system with unprecedented power and correspondingly great internal vulnerabilities.”
― Geerat J. Vermeij, The Evolution of Power: A New Understanding of the History of Life