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The following links take you to the sample sections of the rough draft of my unfinished book, Wild, Free, & Happy.  For an optimal experience, I recommend reading them in order.  Enjoy!

 

Full Blog Contents (Samples, Rants, 210 Book Reviews)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 01 (Introduction)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 02 (Early Days)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 03 (Primate Relatives)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 04 (Primate Lifestyles)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 05 (Early Hominins)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 06 (Bipedal Hominins)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 07 (Fire: Big Juju)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 08 (Fire Domestication)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 09 (Neanderthals & Humans)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 10 (Genes vs. Culture)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 11 (Social Structure)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 12 (Techno Innovation)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 13 (Communication)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 14 (Out of Africa)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 15 (Smashing Limits)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 16 (Great Leap Forward)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 17 (Communal Hunting)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 18 (Extinction Spasms)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 19 (Climate Shifts)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 20 (Imperceptible Overkill)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 21 (Perfection of Hunting)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 22 (Grassland)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 23 (Super Grass)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 24 (Manmade Grassland)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 25 (Sacred Forests)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 25.5 (Stumble to Domestication)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 26 (Animal Domestication)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 27 (Pigs & Cattle)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 28 (Sheep)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 29 (Goats)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 30 (Horses)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 31 (Dogs)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 32 (Plant Domestication)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 33 (Eco-History Heroes)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 34 (Corn 01)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 35 (Corn 02)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 36 (Corn 03)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 37 (Potato)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 38 (Disease 01)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 39 (Disease 02)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 40 (Sacred Predators)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 41 (War on Forests)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 42 (Energy 01)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 43 (Energy 02)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 44 (Food: Soil)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 44 Update Destruction

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 44 Update Nutrients

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 45 (Food: Water)

Intermission (Old diary sketches)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 46 (Who Are We? 01)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 47 (Who Are We? 02)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 48 (Family Planning)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 49 (Limits)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 50 (Path to Domination 01)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 51 (Path to Domination 02)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 52 (Human Web 01)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 53 (Human Web 02)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 54 (Pirahã)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 55 (Climate 01)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 56 (Climate 02)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 57 (Climate 03)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 58 (Climate 04)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 59 (Islands)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 80 (Megafauna Extinct rewrite)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 81 (Grassland rewrite)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 82 (Forest rewrite)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 83 (Human Web update)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 84 (Wild Free Isolation)

Wild, Free, & Happy sample 99 (Bibliography)

Bright Green Lies (Book Review)

The End of Ice (Book Review)

A Farewell to Ice (Book Review)

Life After Fossil Fuels (Book Review)

Unsettled (Book Review)

The Art of Not Being Governed (Book Review)

Megafauna (Book Review)

Under a White Sky (Book Review)

The Passenger Pigeon (Book Review)

GeoDestinies 2022 (Book Review)

Clean Green Incoherence (Rant)

Nonrenewable Geology (Rant)