Mann has written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. Mann was born in 1955 and graduated from Amherst College in 1976. He is the coauthor of four books, and contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired. In 2006 his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year. Mann (born 1955) is an American journalist and author, specializing in scientific topics.
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Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process that the journal Science recently described as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."-Publisher descriptionĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:09:20 Boxid IA151701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw OctoDonorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Vintage Books ed. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets. Certain cities such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, were greater in population than any European city. The author shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Holmberg's mistake: View from above - Numbers from nowhere?: Why Billington survived - In the land of four quarters - Frequently asked questions - Very old bones: Pleistocene wars - Cotton (or anchovies) and maize (tales of two civilizations, part I) - Writing, wheels, and bucket brigades (tales of two civilizations, part II) - Landscape with figures: Made in America - Amazonia - Artificial wilderness - Great law of peace Includes bibliographical references and index
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