Ryan North

The mosquito is one of the few animals that, if removed, would have no lasting negative impact on the world: the activities they perform in the ecosystem (feeding birds, some light pollination) are already performed by other insects. The only legacy would be fewer human deaths from malaria.

It wasn’t until 1816 CE that we realized proteins were important, and then only by noticing that if we forced dogs to eat nothing but sugar they still died of starvation.
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Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others.

Farming also formalizes the idea of an economy in your civilization, since now farmers can regularly trade their food with others. With an economy comes specialization: instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that. A hunter and gatherer

With an economy comes specialization: instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that. A hunter and gatherer

instead of each human having to do everything necessary to survive (or splitting it among a family group), now someone who’s particularly talented at farming can focus all their efforts on that.

. All you need is this book and some water.

locks in 0 degrees as the temperature of a weird slurry of ice, water, and salt that Mr. Fahrenheit threw together before calling it a day, and we will discuss it no further,

if at this point you’re thinking you could easily improve this system by farming only half your fields each year while the other half recover, congratulations: you just invented crop rotation!
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