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The Myths and Science of Losing Weight & How Humans Have Redefined Nature

Something You Should Know

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We're Manipulating Nature

The first evidence that humans are manipulating nature comes from the fossil record. We driving something extinct really changes the community of organisms and pushes everything in a different direction. The successes of our ability to manipulate species to make things that fed more people allowed us to use up all of these natural spaces for things like cattle farming and agriculture. And so we shifted from being herders and hunters and gatherersand farmers to being protectors.

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