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The Cinegetic or Extractive Mode of Social Metabolism

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The human species as such (Homo sapiens) is at least 200,000 years old, but if humanness was inclusively considered, its antiquity must be extended to about two million years.

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  1. Geografía, Historia y Filosofía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

    Manuel González de Molina

  2. UNAM Campus Morelia, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

    Víctor M Toledo

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González de Molina, M., Toledo, V.M. (2014). The Cinegetic or Extractive Mode of Social Metabolism. In: The Social Metabolism. Environmental History, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06358-4_9

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