Animals and Human Society
Impacts of Animals on People and People on Animals
- 2nd Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Authors: Colin G. Scanes, Clive Phillips
- Language: English
Animals and Human Society: Impacts of Animals on People and People on Animals, Second editon provides a solid, scientific, research-based background to advance our unders… Read more
- Provides updated coverage of first edition content, novel chapters, and guest essays
- Balances traditional animal science with companion animals, animal biology, zoonotic diseases, animal products, environmental impacts, and all aspects of human-animal interactions
- Challenges readers to consider animal ethical issues and overall societal impacts from the lens of anthrozoology
- Features research-based and pedagogically sound content, with learning goals and textboxes to provide key information
2. Ethics, welfare and animals
3. Animal perception including differences with humans
4. Animal attributes exploited by humans (nonfood uses of animals)
5. Animal products and human nutrition
6. Zooarchaeology
7. Hunter gatherers
8. Animal and hominin development
9. The neolithic revolution, animal domestication and early forms of animal agriculture
10. Animal agriculture: Livestock, poultry and fish aquaculture
11. Invertebrates and their use by humans
12. Animals in the military
13. Animals in entertainment
14. Zoos
15. Animals and religion, belief systems
16. Animals as companions
17. Companion animal behavior
18. Anthrozoology
19. Animals in medicine and research
20. Animals and human disease: Zoonosis, vectors, food-borne diseases and allergies Chapter 21: Pest animals
22. Parasites
23. Invasive species
24. Impact of agricultural animals on the environment
25. Human activity and habitat loss: Destruction, fragmentation and degradation
26. Animal extinctions
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Colin G. Scanes
Dr. Colin G. Scanes is Professor Emeritus of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wales and his DSc from Hull University. His research interests include anthrozoology; animal physiology, nutrition, and production; and veterinary medicine. He has received numerous awards for his research in animal and agricultural sciences, most recently from the American Society of Animal Science. In addition to faculty positions with the University of Wisconsin, Iowa State University, and Mississippi State University, Dr. Scanes has worked various federal positions with the USDA, SANREM CRSP, DOE, and EPA FQPA. He has led the development of more than a dozen books, including the first edition of Animals and Human Society and seven editions of Sturkie’s Avian Physiology.
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