Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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Just as beavers build dams and termites construct mounds, humans manipulate our environments. …

Just as beavers build dams and termites construct mounds, humans manipulate our environments.

The urge to reshape our environment is no transient social pressure. Instead, it’s a set of behaviors with deep evolutionary roots stretching back millions of years.

Conservation Geneticist Andrew Tighe argues that controlling nature might be in itself part of our nature – an evolutionary adaptation that we can use to our advantage even as we recognize the damage it has caused.

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The urge to reshape our environment is no transient social pressure. Instead, it’s a set of behaviors with deep evolutionary roots stretching back millions of years.


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