Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
So Human an Animal
by René Dubos
Summary
A microbiologist's meditation on how modern industrial environments shape human biology, psychology, and well-being, arguing that civilization has outpaced the body's evolutionary fit with its surroundings. Dubos blends laboratory science, ecology, and humanism to insist that technological progress must be measured against its effects on human flourishing. The book helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the emerging environmental movement.
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Historical Context & Significance
A tie winner. Dubos was a pioneer of the environmental movement; he is famous for coining the phrase "Think globally, act locally."