21 juillet 2022
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Jean-Louis Pham, « Chapter 1. Genetic Resources », IRD Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.irdeditions.42946
Introduction In his book entitled Guns, Germs and Steel, American geographer Jared Diamond (1997) identifies the control of domesticated plant and animal species as one of the underlying factors in the “pattern of history”. By enabling the development of sedentary societies some 10,000 years ago, in which the search for food was no longer the sole concern of human populations, agriculture enabled the emergence of actors specialising in activities other than hunting and gathering, such as blac...