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Fallible Animals Episode 8: Interview with Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell
Fallible Animals
The Different Lifestyles of Nomads in Eurasia
Settled civilizations and nomadic peoples have clashed throughout history. How is it that we have these two vastly different lifestyles emerge in the same species? It comes down to one of the fundamental contrasts within the Eurasian continent within the Eurasian landmass again. The steps are much more arid which means you cannot effectively grow enough food for yourself by using agriculture but it does support very well an alternative mode of life called nomadic pastoralism i.e. hurting huge numbers of goats or sheep or cattle eating the grasswhich humans cannot eat themselves.
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