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Comment by jojobas

There's a lot to indicate at least the vast majority of the tribes didn't understand seeds (or sex-childbirth link for that matter).

>Why clear the land and plant a "crop" when you get enough from the plants that all the other animals rely on?

So that you don't have to walk many miles a day foraging and kill all but one of your babies at a time, cause you can't carry any more. Basically, same reason as anyone else who went from hunting/gathering to farming.

Also Aborigines had no trouble burning forests to make grounds more attractive to animals they hunted, eventually converting varied biomes to eucalyptus forests, so the purported do-no-harm attitude is proven bullshit.

parent jojobas 2 years ago

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