"Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption--a crisis of stuff. Indeed, so accustomed are we to living with stuff, it has become difficult to imagine ways out of the environmental crisis that do not come down to substituting a new package of material artifacts (perhaps with a smaller carbon footprint) for those we have today. In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist and philosopher Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional, that is, material, sense was virtually absent. Far from being isolated events, these cases exemplify a pervasive feature of human cultural evolution with implications for our own time. In a time when more and more of us are reconsidering our relationship to stuff, we need to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point"--

人类已经引发了一场地球上的资源消耗危机--东西的危机。事实上，我们如此习惯于与东西为伍，已经很难想象摆脱环境危机的方法，而不是用一揽子新的物质工艺品（也许碳足迹更小）来替代我们今天拥有的那些东西。在《人类支架》中，人类学家和哲学家Josh Berson提供了一个适应环境变化的新理论。借鉴利基建设、进化博弈论和认知的主动性观点，Berson考虑了适应性考古学中的一些案例，其中传统意义上的技术，即物质意义上的技术，几乎是不存在的。这些案例远不是孤立的事件，而是体现了人类文化进化的一个普遍特征，对我们这个时代有影响。在我们越来越多的人重新考虑我们与东西的关系的时候，我们需要问一问环境危机对我们的要求是什么，不是作为消费者而是作为生物人。人类脚手架》提供了一个出发点。