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For the decline of megafauna after the end of the last ice age, and what followed, see Harris (1977), chapter 3. The following account, with its interpretations of Genesis, is based on Hugh Brody’s groundbreaking work in Brody (2000), chapter 2. For an account of the domestication of plants and animals and the evolution of agriculture, see Jared Diamond (1991), The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, chapter 10.