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When I was standing on the edge of this higher place, I heard a low voiced road, as if asking me to keep away. I raced back to the car which was about 50 feet from this point!

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Dinesh ^club

In a boldly written article in ‘American Anthropologist’ in 1954, Meggers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Meggers proclaimed the implications:

There is a force at work to which man through his culture must bow. This determinant operates uniformly regardless of time, place (within the forest), psychology or race. Its leveling effect appears to be inescapable. Even modern efforts to implant civilization in the South American tropical forest have met with defeat, or survive only with constant assistance from the outside. In short, the environmental potential of the tropical forest is sufficient to allow the evolution of culture to proceed only to the level represented by (slash-and-burn farmers); further indigenous evolution is impossible, and any more highly evolved culture attempting to settle and maintain itself in the tropical forest environment with ineivtably decline to the (slash-and-burn) level. ~ Page 332

23 months ago. Edited 13 months ago.

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