Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including Civilizations, Millennium, 1492: The Year Our World Began, and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.

• Introduction: The Weird Planet ; 1. Challenging Change ; 2. The Frustration of Science ; 3. The Great Re-Convergence ; 4. The Chimpanzees' Tea Party ; 5. The Limits of Evolution ; 6. The Imaginative Animal ; 7. Facing Acceleration ; 8. Towards the Planet of the Apes ; Afterword: In the Vatican Garden ; Notes ; Index

A mix of wide and deep learning and rigorous argument, beautifully written ... [a] delightful and indispensable book.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including Civilizations, Millennium, 1492: The Year Our World Began, and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.

• Introduction: The Weird Planet ; 1. Challenging Change ; 2. The Frustration of Science ; 3. The Great Re-Convergence ; 4. The Chimpanzees' Tea Party ; 5. The Limits of Evolution ; 6. The Imaginative Animal ; 7. Facing Acceleration ; 8. Towards the Planet of the Apes ; Afterword: In the Vatican Garden ; Notes ; Index

A mix of wide and deep learning and rigorous argument, beautifully written ... [a] delightful and indispensable book.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including Civilizations, Millennium, 1492: The Year Our World Began, and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.

• Introduction: The Weird Planet ; 1. Challenging Change ; 2. The Frustration of Science ; 3. The Great Re-Convergence ; 4. The Chimpanzees' Tea Party ; 5. The Limits of Evolution ; 6. The Imaginative Animal ; 7. Facing Acceleration ; 8. Towards the Planet of the Apes ; Afterword: In the Vatican Garden ; Notes ; Index

A mix of wide and deep learning and rigorous argument, beautifully written ... [a] delightful and indispensable book.