Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization By Spencer Wells(A) [Audiobook]
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Rating | : | 4.99 (546 Votes) |
Asin | : | B004CHNCY8 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-02-22 |
Language | : | English |
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"Interesting, but not exactly what I was expecting" according to W. V. Buckley. I have to hand it to Spencer Wells. He's a master at explaining scientific data and making a subject that might seem dry and academic come alive. In Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization he takes on the topic of early man's transition from hunter-gatherer to an argicultural basis 10,000 years ago during the Neolithic revolution. Using his background . Did humans take a wrong turn? The Economist magazine has suggested that if humanity has a "historian-in-chief" it is Spencer Wells, one of the foremost practitioners applying population genetics to refine our understanding of distant human history. That sets a rather high expectation for Pandora's Seed.Wells builds on the basic evolutionary idea that when the environment changes not all of the. A New Perspective on the Historical Transition to Agriculture David Hillstrom The enormous change brought about by the invention of agriculture is well documented. As Spencer Wells says in his book, Pandora's Seed, the transition to permanent settlements led "from villages to cities, which joined in empires with written records to pass on to future generations. What before was lost to posterity or decayed into vague myth was now written in