A Marxist approach to understanding ecology
Two seminal books, John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York’s The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth and John Bellamy Foster’s The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
History
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Paradise' Hayatnagar now traffic-ridden, congested
HYDERABAD: Hayatnagar today is a congested suburb of Hyderabad, notorious for chaotic traffic, high vehicular and dust pollution, poor water quality, and badly maintained roads. Its location on the arterial
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Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication
<p>Modern wheat, which underlies the diet of many across the globe, has a long history of selection and crosses among different species. Avni et al. used the Hi-C method of genome confirmation capture
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Discovery: Homo Sapiens is Moroccan, Precisely from Marrakech
Rabat – Deep in the earth at the Jebel Irhoud (100 km west of Marrakech), scientists have discovered a 300,000-year-old human fossil shaking accepted theories of where and when our species evolved. Zoom
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Did the first farmers deliberately domesticate wild plants?
Ancient Egyptians grew crops including wheat, barley, and vegetables The Oxford encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt The beginning of agriculture changed human history and has fascinated scholars for centuries.
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Present-day central African forest is a legacy of the 19th century human history
<p>The populations of light-demanding trees that dominate the canopy of central African forests are now aging. Here, we show that the lack of regeneration of these populations began ca. 165 ya (around
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Marine origin of retroviruses in the early Palaeozoic Era
<p>Very little is known about the ancient origin of retroviruses, but owing to the discovery of their ancient endogenous viral counterparts, their early history is beginning to unfold. Here we report 36
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Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: New evidence from Indus settlements in northern India
<p>The nature and timing of rice domestication and the development of rice cultivation in South Asia is much debated. In northern South Asia there is presently a significant gap (c.4200 years) between
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Rice farming in India much older than thought, used as 'summer crop' by Indus civilization
Latest research on archaeological sites of the ancient Indus Civilisation, which stretched across what is now Pakistan and northwest India during the Bronze Age, has revealed that domesticated rice farming
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HIV’s patient zero exonerated
A study clarifies when HIV entered the United States and dispels the myth that one man instigated the AIDS epidemic in North America.