PEDIATRICS Vol. 97 No. 6 June 1996, pp. 821
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HOW OUR KIND EXPLODED

The invention that really changed our position in the natural world was the advent of agriculture. . . Taking control over production of our own food supply, we became the first species in the 3.5 billion year history of life to live outside the confines of the local ecosystem. And it was this biologically singular ability to live independently of local natural ecosystems that permitted the population explosion.