"Space settlement will require novel biological and cultural adaptations to support populations of humans, on multigenerational timescales, in environments so far unfamiliar to our species even after 100,000 years of human cultural and biological adaptation to myriad Earth environments. The new field of anthropology that studies such adaptive efforts is space anthropology or exoanthropology, exo- referring to 'beyond Earth', in the same way it is used in the term 'exobiology'."
You can read the larger text of the preface, if you're still interested, posted on Paul Gilster's Cebtauri Dreams site.
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