Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers (Darwinism Today)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780297842583 (0297842587)
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages no: 53
Edition language: English
This book is a really quick read but it has lots of ideas that I really enjoyed hearing. It's not like it posits anything breathtaking or mind-boggling, it's just a short journey from the 'conventional wisdom' on agriculture, but it was well written and interesting to read!
This is a short monograph (50 pages) that synopsizes Colin Tudge's argument that pre-Neolithic Revolution humans (and, indeed, hominids in general) have been modifying their environment for hundreds of millennia, and this includes "farming," of which Tudge identifies three types:1. Horticulture: Or,...
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