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Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it’s the world’s largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

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It’s striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

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May 2, 2024

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

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May 2, 2024

It’s striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

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