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It was recommended for further information on bee domestication and other topics related to the Columbian Exchange. It was noted as a resource with relevant insights.
Although if that floats your boat, you should read 1493 because stuff like that comes up a lot.
— Episode: Selects: How Animal Domestication Works
Episode: Selects: How Animal Domestication Works
It was recommended for further information on bee domestication and other topics related to the Columbian Exchange. It was noted as a resource with relevant insights.
Although if that floats your boat, you should read 1493 because stuff like that comes up a lot.
Man, I just need to read both of those at some point.
I can't believe you haven't.
Man, you need to read 1491 and 1493.
Episode: Selects: How Extinction Works
This book was mentioned in the context of explaining the massive population of passenger pigeons, suggesting their numbers exploded because their natural predators (Native Americans) had been wiped out by disease a century earlier.
if you read 1493 or 1491, I can't remember which one it is, but both are excellent books by Charles C. Mann. He talks about the passenger pigeon and how they've recently realized that there were so many passenger pigeons because a century before their, one of their, um, great predators, the Native American.
