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Fascinating. I feel like every year or so a new book is written along the topic of something like this though: Fish, Salt, Grain, Money, Paper, etc and how that thing was responsible for modern civilization. I commend the author for bringing this idea to the forefront but its likely disingenuous to think that Fish and Fishing has as the author says, "created the modern world" more so than any of these other things.

> "Anthropologists are simply realizing that early cities took extremely diverse forms. "Clearly, urbanism is different in different parts of the world, and we need to be more flexible in how we define this," he explained. The tropics demonstrate that where we draw the lines of agriculture and urbanism can be very difficult to determine."

It seems that the more humans learn about any topic: our own agricultural history, biology, psychology, mathematics, etc we begin to reach conclusions similar to the above. Wow, this is much more complex than we thought it was. I find this in my own life as I explore socio-political topics also - it seems the deeper one dives into any topic the more difficult it is to, as the article says, "draw the lines". Has anybody experienced an intellectual exploration to the contrary?

Thank you! This all looks like great advice! Especially the feature creep, my client is already showing signs of that. I