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Pandora's Seed

2011-09-13 Science
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Release : 2011-09-13
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Pandora's Seed by : Spencer Wells

Download or read book Pandora's Seed written by Spencer Wells. This book was released on 2011-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.

Pandora's Seed

2010-06-08 Science
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Release : 2010-06-08
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 743/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Pandora's Seed by : Spencer Wells

Download or read book Pandora's Seed written by Spencer Wells. This book was released on 2010-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.

Pandora's Potatoes

2018-10-07 Crops
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Release : 2018-10-07
Genre : Crops
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Book Rating : 835/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Pandora's Potatoes by : Caius Rommens

Download or read book Pandora's Potatoes written by Caius Rommens. This book was released on 2018-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -THIS BOOK HAS SERVED ITS FUNCTION AND IS RETIRED-GMO potatoes are quietly entering the market place with innocuous names such as Innate, White, and Hibernate. They are suggested to have maintained all the original traits of normal potatoes and to have gained three new traits: enhanced disease resistance, enhanced uniformity, and enhanced healthiness. However, the reality is different. As a crop, the potatoes contain genetically unstable traits, two of which appear to have been lost already (or are in the process of being lost), suffer a significant yield drag and reduction in size profile, conceal bruises and potentially spread diseases, may be grown and stored in ways that maximize disease and pest pressures, and were developed through an act of biopiracy. As a processed food, they lost the sensory attributes that make normal potato foods so attractive, and they are also likely to contain new toxins. If it were up to me, the creator of these potatoes, I would call them Pandora's Potatoes. They are the worst GMOs ever commercialized.

Meum Et Tuum

1877 American poetry
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Release : 1877
Genre : American poetry
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Book Synopsis Meum Et Tuum by : Ruth Natalie Cromwell

Download or read book Meum Et Tuum written by Ruth Natalie Cromwell. This book was released on 1877. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Circular

1923 Agriculture
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Release : 1923
Genre : Agriculture
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Book Synopsis Circular by : University of Georgia. College of Agriculture. Experiment Stations

Download or read book Circular written by University of Georgia. College of Agriculture. Experiment Stations. This book was released on 1923. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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