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192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution

The Michael Shermer Show

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Climate Change and Population Growth

The advent of agriculture didn't really set off a population explosion. The people in colorado ana americans in colorado, they were increasing their population by adapting gradually to a more plant reca diets,. Even though they didn't get into agriculture. They couldn't invent any better ways to utilize plants. Whereas the agriculturists continued to grow very slowly, butis accelerating all the time. There's a kind of expedential compounding. And that those kind of models can be applied to the holocene.

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