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Against the grain : how agriculture has hijacked civilization /
Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. He suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs ag...
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York :
North Point Press,
2005, c2004.
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| Edición: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Contributor biographical information Sample text Publisher description Table of contents |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Arousal
- Why agriculture?
- Why agriculture spread
- Hard times
- Modern times
- A vanguard of feudalism
- To see the wizard
- Why we are what we eat
- Hog heaven
- A counteragriculture
- I eat, therefore I kill.