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The notion that food is the driving force of human history is gaining acceptance. Finding enough to eat today so that you stay alive tomorrow is the mark of individual success. Finding so much today that you can afford to devote tomorrow to thinking is the start of civilization. The argument emerges that tools were devised to improve some aspect of food gathering, so the origins of technology are also to be found in the basic need to eat.
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Moore, D. (2001). Blights, Rusts, Bunts, and Mycoses. In: Slayers, Saviors, Servants and Sex. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0135-6_2
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