ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates potential areas of consilience between history and evolution because of the politics of climate change and resource depletion. Wilson, an advocate for radical political reform to alter our increasingly dangerous future, understands that the unity of knowledge he seeks can directly improve democratic citizenship and governance. E. O. Wilson was one of the first modern biologists to bring evolution and history closer together by arguing for co-evolution. The co-evolutionary scenario for our species resulting from our ancestors' ability to pass on survivable traits through both genes and culture is fairly straightforward. At the beginning of our co-evolution, genetics induced our ancestors to invent and propagate cooperative cultures. Hamilton, Bonneuil and Gemenne choose the word 'reinventing' when considering how all of humanity might live 'a life of dignity' in the Anthropocene. Anthropocene will focus on the culture of the United States and its relations with the rest of the Earth.
