Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland? Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August 2021. This ...

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Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilization—harvesting, then domestication of crop ...