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jeffreyi

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Thu May 6, 2021, 08:54 PM May 2021

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

From the abstract:

Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative land use practices, including burning, hunting, species propagation, domestication, cultivation, and others that have left long-term legacies across the terrestrial biosphere. Yet, a lingering paradigm among natural scientists, conservationists, and policymakers is that human transformation of terrestrial nature is mostly recent and inherently destructive. Here, we use the most up-to-date, spatially explicit global reconstruction of historical human populations and land use to show that this paradigm is likely wrong...

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2023483118

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People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (Original Post) jeffreyi May 2021 OP
Have you heard of the book Sapiens, cilla4progress May 2021 #1
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