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The Social Metabolism

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All the evidence points to the fact that about five thousand years ago, a complex combination of factors gave way to a qualitatively different relationship between human societies and their environments. These factors include a leap in humans’ mental capacity, a generalized temperature increase (at the end of the Ice age), and in particular, the management of landscapes and plant and animal species.

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González de Molina, M., Toledo, V.M. (2023). Organic Metabolism. In: The Social Metabolism. Environmental History, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48411-7_12

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