by vector_spaces on 12/20/24, 11:29 PM with 2 comments
by Terr_ on 12/20/24, 11:50 PM
Yeah, I don't know what they meant, but once you see that mistake in evolutionary discussions, it's hard to unsee it.
Sometimes I like to explicitly describe planting things as mankind's oldest technology. Know-how like which berries will kill you and which won't are an important knowledge base, and people today are likely to underestimate how much work--unsung, anonymous--was put into building it, and how much may have been forgotten.