The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next Fauna Many Tibetan and Yi people

Many Tibetan and Yi people have dedicated their lives to picking and selling this mushroom―a delicacy that drives a multibillion-dollar global trade network and that still grows only in the wild

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The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next Fauna Many Tibetan and Yi peopleA provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over timeand our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late. The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire receptive time in Earth's history. Since terrestrial life first appeared, flames have flourished. Over the past two million years, however, one genus gained the ability to manipulate fire,