agriculture – Newscleus

Foiling Thomas Malthus

Part 3 – Saving a billion lives In the 1950s and 1960s, the international geopolitical situation had placed humanity in a dangerous position. Tensions between United States and the Soviet Union were close to boiling over, and the Cold War drove competition between the two global superpowers in everything from nuclear warfare to art andContinue reading “Foiling Thomas Malthus”

Neolithic Genetic Engineering Was (Unsurprisingly) Inefficient

Part 2: An overview of modern plant breeding techniques and their advantages Approximately 12,000 years ago, humanity began a transition that would lead to a fundamental change in the way people live. Independently of each other, populations in 11 different regions spread across the world began the slow process of moving from nomadic hunter-gatherer societiesContinue reading “Neolithic Genetic Engineering Was (Unsurprisingly) Inefficient”