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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 129 points 2 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago

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...)

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

I think that’s basically what The Botany of Desire is about, right?

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I guess... If you consider factory farmed chickens to be "successful."

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