Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization - Spencer Wells
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This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind’s decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
What do terrorism, pandemic disease, and global warming have in common? To find the answer we need to go back 10 millennia, to the wheat fields of the Fertile Crescent and the rice paddies of southern China. It was at that point that our species made a radical shift in its way of life. We had spent millions of years of evolution eking out a living as hunter-gatherers. When we learned how to control our food supply, though, we became as gods - we controlled the world rather than it controlling us. But with godliness comes responsibility. By sowing seeds thousands of years ago, we were also sowing a new culture - one that has come with many unforeseen costs.
Taking us on a 10,000-year tour of human history and a globe-trotting fact-finding mission, Pandora’s Seed charts the rise to power of Homo agriculturis and the effect this radical shift in lifestyle has had on us. Focusing on three key trends as the final stages of the agricultural population explosion play out over this century, Wells speculates on the significance of our newfound ability to modify our genomes to better suit our unnatural culture, fast-forwarding our biological adaptation to the world we have created. But what do we stand to lose in the process?
Climate change, a direct result of billions of people living in a culture of excess accumulation, threatens the global social and ecological fabric. It will force a key shift in our behavior, as we learn to take the welfare of future generations into account. Finally, the rise of religious fundamentalism over the past half-century is explained as part of a backlash against many of the trends set in motion by the agricultural population explosion and its inherent inequality.
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
May 14th, 2023
I just put Against the Grain on my phone…
May 15th, 2023
This so called agriculture revolution has some interesting timing in that it came on the heels of the Megafana extinction. Perhaps some parents felt that farming was the only way to feed the tribe since hunting the remaining smaller & quicker game could not sustain the tribe going forward.
*Humans responsible for demise of gigantic ancient mammals*
Early humans were the dominant cause of the extinction of a variety of species of giant beasts, new research has revealed.
Scientists at the universities of Exeter and Cambridge claim their research settles a prolonged debate over whether mankind or climate change was the dominant cause of the demise of massive creatures in the time of the sabretooth tiger, the woolly mammoth, the woolly rhino and the giant armadillo.
Known collectively as megafauna, most of the largest mammals ever to roam the earth were wiped out over the last 80,000 years, and were all extinct by 10,000 years ago.”
https://news-archive.exeter.ac.uk/featurednews/title_465673_en.html
“…and were all extinct by 10,000 years ago.”
There’s that timing. Every couple of years a scientist, who is angry & politically left, puts out a paper claiming it was climate & not humans (in N America) that is mostly responsible for the megafauna extinction. One way you can tell if it was mostly climate change responsible for a major extinction is to look at species in rivers, lakes & ocean. If they are largely untouched it’s the killer chimps.
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Everywhere the humans go death & destruction follow.
Unfortunately our technological evolution is orders of magnitude ahead of our psychological evolution.
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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” –E.O. Wilson
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Thank you MojoYugen
June 3rd, 2023
@MojoYugen
Some American football encroaching in my download around 1hour 20minutes
Just me ?
Kind of weird !!!
Thanks for the upload though !!!
cheers
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