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Andrea
Oct 28, 2023 rated it it was ok
Shelves: anthropology, popular-science, denison-library
What is good in this book is pared down and restated from other sources. The author has an engaging tone and keeps it all straightforward. But somewhere in the it all started to slip from discussion or report into preaching. By the time he started comparing beef calves to human spaces ( and erroneously describing modern farming practices) he had really lost me. If you have never read a recent popular book on world history you might find lots of new things here and enjoy the book. But there are m ...more
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