Gizmodo highlighted UBC research that shows that our ancestors changed the chemistry of the soils they farmed more than 2,000 years ago.
“This is a new lens on one of the most profound shifts in human history: when humans go from being part of nature to being drivers of environmental processes,” said Eric Guiry, the study lead author of the new study and a UBC PhD candidate of anthrozoology.
A similar story appeared on Star Vancouver.