Comment by Kluny

I read Sapiens by Yuval Harari this year. It was long and fascinating, incredibly well researched, and easy enough for "light reading" that I had time for between writing research papers. A couple things that stuck with me were stories of giant land mammals that used to exist, many more than I realized, alongside humans. Wherever humans colonized, the large mammals were killed off soon after. This happened in Australia, China, and Europe, and long before the days of colonization. Another was the idea that humans have been cultivated by wheat, rather than the other way around, based on the observation that our relationship with wheat is more beneficial for the plant than for ourselves.