Pandora's Seed

Author: Spencer Wells
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812971914
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.

Pandora's Seed

Author: Spencer Wells
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679603743
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Meum Et Tuum

Author: Ruth Natalie Cromwell
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Circular

Author: University of Georgia. College of Agriculture. Experiment Stations
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Circular

Author: Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Pandora's Potatoes

Author: Caius Rommens
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986600835
Category : Crops
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
-THIS BOOK HAS SERVED ITS FUNCTION AND IS RETIRED-GMO potatoes are quietly entering the market place with innocuous names such as Innate, White, and Hibernate. They are suggested to have maintained all the original traits of normal potatoes and to have gained three new traits: enhanced disease resistance, enhanced uniformity, and enhanced healthiness. However, the reality is different. As a crop, the potatoes contain genetically unstable traits, two of which appear to have been lost already (or are in the process of being lost), suffer a significant yield drag and reduction in size profile, conceal bruises and potentially spread diseases, may be grown and stored in ways that maximize disease and pest pressures, and were developed through an act of biopiracy. As a processed food, they lost the sensory attributes that make normal potato foods so attractive, and they are also likely to contain new toxins. If it were up to me, the creator of these potatoes, I would call them Pandora's Potatoes. They are the worst GMOs ever commercialized.

Pandora's Hope

Author: Austin Harrison
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Science

Author: John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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New Scientist

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Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Deep Ancestry

Author: Spencer Wells
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426202113
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustrations, he explains exactly how each and every individual's DNA contributes another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of human history. The book takes readers inside the Genographic Project—the landmark study now assembling the world's largest collection of DNA samples and employing the latest in testing technology and computer analysis to examine hundreds of thousand of genetic profiles from all over the globe—and invites us all to take part.