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          1. Large areas of tropical rainforest have been planted and tended like gardens by humans for millennia. arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/the-amazon-forest-is-the-result-of-a-8000-year-experiment/
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          The human role of "pristine" natural forests is mindblowing. ~20% of tree species in the Amazon forest are ancient domesticates
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        “It’s not only the ecology or the environment that created this forest, but also the people who lived there before.” nytimes.com/2017/03/03/science/amazon-rain-forest-plants-domesticate.html
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      It's cool to watch a mindblowing story go viral about a topic where earlier research blew your mind a quarter century ago.
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    Peach palms are a major Amazon tree species. They require human cooking to reproduce their enormously expanded seeds.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      So-called hunter-gatherers, are often hunter-gatherer-planters who manage the plants that will feed their children and grandchildren.
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        This I learned from anthropologist Laura Rival, writing about the Huaorani in 1993. jstor.org/stable/2803990
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