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		<title>Future Farms Will Be Run By Robots</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/09/26/future-farms-will-be-run-by-robots/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a love-hate relationship with farmers. I have a great deal of respect for the enterprise and for those who dedicate their lives to it. But, I also become annoyed at the culture in which modern American farming embeds itself. And, I don&#8217;t feel a lot of reticence talking openly about that. Having done &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/09/26/future-farms-will-be-run-by-robots/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Future Farms Will Be Run By Robots</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Hydraulic Hypothesis and the End of Civilization</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/02/the-hydraulic-hypothesis-and-the-end/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OK, I admit the title of this post is possibly a bit extreme but I could not resist the symmetry. Here, I refer to both ends of civilization, the start and the finish. I&#8217;d like to talk about a recent review published in Science, titled &#8220;Systems integration for global sustainability&#8221; written by my colleague Peter &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/03/02/the-hydraulic-hypothesis-and-the-end/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Hydraulic Hypothesis and the End of Civilization</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Did you ever wonder how you are going to die?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/05/07/did-you-ever-wonder-how-you-are-going-to-die/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 18:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evolution of Diet]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking it will be the food you eat that gets you. Here&#8217;s why. Humans eat a wide variety of foods; as a species, the diversity of species we eat is greater than any other animal by a very large margin, with the only quirky exception being the animals that we take along with us, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/05/07/did-you-ever-wonder-how-you-are-going-to-die/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Did you ever wonder how you are going to die?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Seven Thousand Year Old African Dairy</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/21/seven-thousand-year-old-african-dairy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pastoralism is the practice of keeping and herding animals such as cattle, goats and sheep, and using the products they produce, including meat, hide, bone, horn and of course, dairy. In the old days, armchair archaeologists thought that pastoralism would have been a phase of cultural adaptation following hunting and gathering and preceding horticulture (the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/21/seven-thousand-year-old-african-dairy/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Seven Thousand Year Old African Dairy</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A word or two about tobacco, and some neat and new research</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/11/a-word-or-two-about-tobacco-an/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve run into a few misconceptions about tobacco, as well as some interesting news, so I thought I&#8217;d share. If you already know some of this, forgive me, not everyone else does. First, tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum, is a member of the Solanaceae family of plants, which from a human perspective &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/11/a-word-or-two-about-tobacco-an/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A word or two about tobacco, and some neat and new research</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Origin of Wine</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/27/the-origin-of-wine/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Julia spending the summer and most of the fall in The Republic of Georgia, I&#8217;ve been thinking about various political and historical aspects of that country, and one of the things that is claimed to be true is that wine was first invented there. Recently, someone asked me (always ask the archaeologist esoteric stuff &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/27/the-origin-of-wine/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Origin of Wine</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Falsehood:  &#8220;If this was the Stone Age, I&#8217;d be dead by now&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/01/falsehood-if-this-was-the-ston/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 13:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post has moved HERE. To the stone age blog!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why do women shop and men hunt?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/12/why-do-women-shop-and-men-hunt/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Or, when the hunting season is closed, watch teh game (the guys), or when there are no sales, admire each other&#8217;s shoes (the gals)? This is, of course, a parody of the sociobiological, or in modern parlance, the &#8220;evolutionary psychology&#8221; argument linking behaviors that evolved in our species during the long slog known as The &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/12/why-do-women-shop-and-men-hunt/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why do women shop and men hunt?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) III</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/23/primitive-cultures-are-simple-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the third of three parts of this particular falsehood. (Here is the previous part) I previously noted that to survive as a Westerner, you can get away with participating in a culture that asks of you little more than to understand the &#8220;one minute&#8221; button on the microwave, while to survive in a &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/23/primitive-cultures-are-simple-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) III</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Explaining the Spread of Agriculture into Europe</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/31/explaining-the-spread-of-agric/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The practice of growing food and keeping livestock was invented numerous times throughout the world. One &#8216;center&#8217; of agriculture is said to be the Middle East. Despite the fact that calling the Middle East a &#8220;center&#8221; in this context is a gross oversimplification, it is true that agriculture was practiced in Anatolia and the Levant &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/31/explaining-the-spread-of-agric/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Explaining the Spread of Agriculture into Europe</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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