Tamed: From Wild to Domesticated, the Ten Animals and Plants That Changed Human History
Domestication looks like a story about humans gaining control over nature. Viewed as a system, however, it becomes a story about species changing one another.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Tamed: From Wild to Domesticated, the Ten Animals and Plants That Changed Human History by Alice Roberts as our lens, this episode investigates the evolutionary relationships connecting humans with the plants and animals that made civilization possible.
Roberts challenges the clean division between natural and artificial selection. Early domestication…
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