# Paul Shepard

> Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. 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.

*American human ecologist (1925-1996)*

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## Identity
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1925-06-12
- **Died:** 1996-07-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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