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[–] [email protected] 96 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Funnily enough we try to cultivate everything we like, so in a roundabout way they were successful.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think the book Sapiens makes the point that wheat has trained us into cultivating it for selfish needs.

(Except that it's wheat, and that we annihilated 99% of its brethren to pick out the one that we liked so we could effectively clone it. But yes, we are the slaves...)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we're just so fascinating.

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