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PLANT DOMESTICATION. "A century of research by botanists and zoologists has established that only certain plant and animal species lend themselves to domestication, and has identified the specific problems preventing the domestication of kangaroos, oak trees, and most other species." https://lnkd.in/d4Twb7p View in LinkedIn

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RECENT HISTORY. "Until 11,000 years ago, all people everywhere on Earth were hunter/gatherers, living at modest population densities because the hunter/gatherer lifestyle yields only modest food quantities and little or no storable food surpluses." https://lnkd.in/d4Twb7p View in LinkedIn

REALITY CHECK. "It's humbling to remember that our species has, perhaps, been around for 150,000 years. The Neolithic Revolution -- which gave us agriculture, at which time we succumbed to the cult of the seed; the poetry of the shaman was displaced by the prose of the priesthood; we created hierarchy specialization surplus -- is only 10,000 years ago. The modern industrial world as we know it is barely 300 years old." https://lnkd.in/d_uwCcC View in LinkedIn

INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP. "The direct dependence of hunter gathers on natural ecosystems for their food, and the intimate knowledge of the natural world that this requires, is generally reflected in their beliefs and attitudes toward nature and wildlife. Such peoples commonly view themselves as inseparable from the natural ecosystems and wildlife around them." https://lnkd.in/defU-EJ View in LinkedIn

SUDDEN APPEARANCE of flowering plants. “The abrupt origin and rapid diversification of the flowering plants during the Cretaceous has long been considered an “abominable mystery.” https://lnkd.in/gFWYaxX View in LinkedIn

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS. "No one group of observers has a monopoly on truth, and the history of western science makes it quite clear that the scientific truths of today will, in ever-decreasing intervals of time, constitute the bulk of tomorrow's discarded hypotheses and superseded knowledge." https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

"GREGORY BATESON, has argued "that relationships should be used as a basis for all definitions...Anything...should be defined not by what it is in itself, but by its relations to other things" https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

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