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The species that changed itself : how prosperity reshaped humanity / Edwin A. M. Gale

This study explores how human societies have reshaped their environments and biological phenotypes through self-domestication. It draws on biology, anthropology, and history to analyse the consequences of creating an artificial world that continues to mould human development.

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