The most significant developments over the last ten thousand yeaars
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Authors
Dugan, David
Abstract
In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr summarizes some of the most significant development over the last ten thousand years, including the philosophical developments in the west which made nature into a tool for humans, the desire to disrupt rather than live in harmony with nature, the backward-looking nature of Jewish and Islamic civilizations.
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civilization