• Björn@swg-empire.de
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    1 year ago

    Funnily enough we try to cultivate everything we like, so in a roundabout way they were successful.

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      I think the book Sapiens makes the point that wheat has trained us into cultivating it for selfish needs.

      (Except that it’s wheat, and that we annihilated 99% of its brethren to pick out the one that we liked so we could effectively clone it. But yes, we are the slaves…)

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        Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we’re just so fascinating.