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“The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography of an Ingenious Species”

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R. DeFries. 2014. New York: Basic Books.
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The human species has long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food so that all 7 billion of us could eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing transformation as to Continue reading →

“From hominins to humans: how sapiens became behaviourally modern”

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K. Sterelny. 2011. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, vol. 366, pp. 809–822.
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This paper contributes to a debate in the palaeoarchaeological community about the major time-lag between the origin of anatomically modern humans and the appearance of Continue reading →