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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think that’s basically what The Botany of Desire is about, right?

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess… If you consider factory farmed chickens to be “successful.”

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