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James's avatar

Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens argues that it is perhaps more accurate not think of humanity domesticating grain but grain domesticating humanity! Human life was radically altered for the benefit of the grain reproductive cycle.

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John Howard Brown's avatar

I'm also currently reading the book about the origins of Indo-European languages. My fellow nerd, I salute you.

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