
Vol 1 Ep 15 - The origin of agriculture
History of the World podcast
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Firestick Farming - The Evolution of the Human Genome
The transition from nomadic hunting and gavering to settled tur started at a certain time. There would have been a life cycle among plants and animals that humans would have had to adapt their life stales to suit. The firestick farming culture of aboriginal australians was something discovered by european settlers when they arrived in austral in the late eighteenth century. Here we see the understanding of nature and how it works over long periods of time, demonstrating human ability to be able to influence the long termd future of an environment for ultimate gain.
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