Neanderthal Tartar and the Anthropocene

Cooking with firewood and domesticating plants and animals changed Earth’s climate

Humans have biological and cultural inertia that keeps them from making quick changes that might upset gains from the past. That is entirely understandable and there is a genetic wisdom in that. Trouble is, genetic wisdom is garnered in thousand-year and ten-thousand-year adjustments, — the normal time it took…