title: Conservation combats exploitation: choices within an evolutionary framework.
abstract: Intentional change when viewed as making a risky or intertemporal choice with evolutionary relevance helps us understand its successes and its failures. To promote future-oriented ecological rationality requires establishing a linkage between nongenetic, cultural, and symbolic selections and genetic adaptations. Coupled with biophilic instinct, intentional conservation is more likely to prevail against evolved desires of environmental exploitation.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department,University of South Dakota,Vermillion,SD 57069xtwang@usd.eduhttp://www.usd.edu/~xtwang.
authors.forename: X T
authors.initials: XT
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101 China.lishu@psych.ac.cnraoll@psych.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Shu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101 China.lishu@psych.ac.cnraoll@psych.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Li-Lin
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D001527:Behaviorism; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans