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Q J Med 2003; 96: 83-84
© 2003 Association of Physicians

Biologic

Fishy business

Colin Berry

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In discussing risk in these columns, I have commented on how it may well be unreasonable to expect the untrained to adopt the scientific method and to carry out evaluations in the manner preferred by those who have acquired a scientific training with considerable effort. This does not suggest that other types of input are of lesser value—non-rational inputs into decision making are important. However, it is interesting to think about something where your own database is defective, to see how you might cope if your customary style of thinking about things fails to help. So this is about risks to fish and domestication of animals in the Neolithic.

In retrospect, no one is surprised that the hunting of bison with rifles on the Great Plains led to their (effective) extinction in a relatively short time. A change in technology had produced an imbalance between cropping . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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