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The Galápagos Islands are one of the world's premiere nature attractions, home to unique ecosystems widely thought to be untouched and pristine. This volume reveals that the archipelago is not as isolated as many imagine, examining how centuries of human occupation have transformed its landscape.

Indians of South America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Antiquities. --- Ethnology --- Galapagos Islands --- Discovery and exploration. --- Galápagos (Ecuador : Province) --- Archipiélago de Colón --- Colón, Archipiélago de --- Archipelago of Galápagos --- Enchanted Islands --- Islas Encantadas --- Islas Galápagos --- Iye ha-Galapagos --- Archipiélago de Colón (Ecuador) --- Archipiélago de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia Insular de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Territorio de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia de Galápagos (Ecuador)

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L'archipel des Galápagos, classé « patrimoine naturel de l'humanité », abrite un parc national prestigieux qui bénéficie d'aides internationales considérables. Destiné à faciliter les recherches naturalistes, censé servir de modèle à de nouvelles formes de valorisation touristique plus respectueuses de l'environnement (écotourisme), ce parc est aujourd'hui l'objet de nombreuses critiques. Le développement des réseaux touristiques et migratoires a accéléré le rattachement de l'archipel au territoire équatorien et au marché mondial. La nature « protégée » est devenue un espace soumis aux exigences de rentabilité d'un monde caractérisé par la marchandisation et l'uniformisation des lieux. Cette « conservation contre nature » a des conséquences catastrophiques pour les écosystèmes et les habitants de l'archipel. Au-delà de l'étude d'une région emblématique, l'auteur mène une réflexion sur la place de l'homme dans la nature, véritable plaidoyer en faveur de la préservation de la géodiversité. Son ouvrage novateur et stimulant s'adresse à tous les acteurs soucieux de l'avenir de notre planète. The Galapagos archipelago, a World Héritage site, possesses a highprestige national park that benefits from considerable international aid. However, this park aimed at facilitating research by naturalists and at serving as a model for new forms of tourism displaying more respect for the environment (ecotourism) is severely criticised today. The development of tourist and migration networks has accelerated the connection of the archipelago to Ecuadorean territory and the world market. The "protected" natural environment has become an area subject to the profitability requirements of a world characterised by the commercialisation and uniformisation of places. This "unnatural conservation" is having catastrophic effects on the ecosystems and inhabitants of the archipelago. Beyond studying an emblematic region, the author considers the position of man in nature and pleads for…

Ecotourism --- Nature conservation --- Ecotourisme --- Nature --- Conservation --- Galapagos Islands --- Galãpagos --- Environmental aspects. --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Travel & Tourism --- Galápagos --- Galápagos (Ecuador : Province) --- Archipiélago de Colón --- Colón, Archipiélago de --- Archipelago of Galápagos --- Enchanted Islands --- Islas Encantadas --- Islas Galápagos --- Iye ha-Galapagos --- Environmental conditions. --- Conditions environnementales --- Archipiélago de Colón (Ecuador) --- Archipiélago de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia Insular de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Territorio de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- tourisme --- ile --- espèce menacée --- conservation de la nature --- parc national --- océan --- milieu naturel --- pêche --- colonisation --- biodiversité --- volcan --- surexploitation --- gestion de l’environnement --- patrimoine naturel

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In 2001 Lynn Margulis visited the main campus of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito to give the commencement address and to travel to the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Ecuadorian Amazonia.  We felt privileged to be part of her entourage for this trip to the rainforest and to have the opportunity to listen her descriptions of hundreds of plants, fungi, insects, slime molds, and even symbiotic protists inhabiting the guts of primitive termites.  During this trip Lynn expressed the need to promote a more comprehensive perspective on biological evolution, one that takes in account not only the classical and modern interpretations of Darwin’s ideas but also the mechanisms of microbial evolution, especially  symbiogenesis -the process that gave rise to eucaryotes  more than two billion years ago and has continued to shape protists and  multicellular organisms ever since.  It was clear that evolutionary science was concentrated primarily on macroscopic biota while neglecting microbes almost entirely.      Those conversations became the main motivation to bring some of the most important minds working in evolutionary science to the very place that inspired Charles Darwin, the Galapagos Islands. During  the summers of  2005 and  2009 we gathered scientists specializing on plants, animals, bacteria and, protists to discuss the peculiarities of evolutionary mechanisms within each domain of life. This book contains some of the most important lectures presented at the first two World Summits on Evolution.

Evolution (Biology) -- Galapagos islands. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Galapagos islands. --- Symbiogenesis --- Microorganisms --- Eukaryotic cells --- Evolution (Biology) --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Geography-General --- Evolution --- Evolution. --- Natural history --- Geography. --- Ecosystems. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Nature conservation. --- Geography, general. --- Nature Conservation. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Philosophy --- Creation --- Emergence (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Conservation --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Galapagos Islands. --- Galápagos (Ecuador : Province) --- Archipiélago de Colón --- Colón, Archipiélago de --- Archipelago of Galápagos --- Enchanted Islands --- Islas Encantadas --- Islas Galápagos --- Iye ha-Galapagos --- Archipiélago de Colón (Ecuador) --- Archipiélago de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia Insular de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Territorio de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Ecuador