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Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. | |
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| Born | June 12, 1925 Kansas City, MO |
| Died | July 27, 1996 (age 71) Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Occupation | Author, Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Ecology, Domestication, Ecopsychology |
| Notable works | The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, Nature and Madness, Coming Home to the Pleistocene, Where we Belong, the Others. |
| Spouse | Florence Bertagnolli Shepard |
| Children | Jane Shepard, Margaret (Marnie) Elizabeth Shepard, Kenton Howe Shepard |
Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. (June 12, 1925 – July 27, 1996) was an American environmentalist and author best known for introducing the "Pleistocene paradigm" to deep ecology. His works established a normative framework in terms of evolutionary theory and developmental psychology. He offered a critique of sedentism/civilization and advocates modeling human lifestyles on those of nomadic prehistoric humans. He explored the connections between domestication, language, and cognition.