Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: America:The Jared Diamond thesis on the role of animals
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr in the American mid-west reflects on the theory that the ability to domesticate only certain animals may have led to the huge divergence in civilizations. The zebra and horse thesis, and the clash of civilizations. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 17:24 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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