Daily Field Notes #88
Welcome to the 88th Daily Field Note! Here you find the top post of the day, one covering each scientific field that is included by Geopolis. Since these authors put a lot of effort in writing a good post they surely deserve the extra exposure.
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it." ~ Steven Pinker
Ecology: The Curious Relationship Between the Wasp and the Fig
Most of us know civilizations arose when nomads settled down and became farmers. We likely learned that wheat and barley were planted, usually near a source of water. What many of us may not realize is that the first plant cultivated by humans was the fig. Fig cultivation predated grain cultivation by centuries. According to Harvard researchers, there is evidence of fig farming in the Near East that dates back about 11,400 years. Grain cultivation did not occur for another 1,000 years.
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Thank you for checking things like that. I truly support the initiative. But I must let you know that we are a curating group supporting authors who write in the field of global sciences. We lease SP from the market and we use that to reward good writers on the platform. Sadly our rewards are not big enough to sustain this leasing and we have to self vote our posts in order to maintain a reasonable amount of Steem Power. We are fully aware that we are amongst the most self voting accounts but all these rewards are used to lease SP and to reward other authors.