Town planners today in tropical regions are adopting the dispersed approach in cities rather than the dense vertical approach, so actually even today we’re now realizing that what they were doing in the past was the best way to support dense populations in a given region.

Patrick Roberts

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Even if a group of people are clearing forest for one crop, they ’ll be moving around and using lots of other resources at the same time. And when that area becomes less fertile, they move, burning it and leaving it for a few years before coming back.

Patrick Roberts

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[ Forests ] have been managed by humans in many places for millennia, and so what do you return it to ?

Patrick Roberts

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These results further the picture that our species was incredibly adaptive, and it is arguably this that made us the first species to expand across the diversity of the globe's ecologies and environments.

Patrick Roberts

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