"Human history did not begin eight or ten thousand years ago with the invention of agriculture and villages. It began hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago with the origin of the genus Homo. For more than 99% of human history people have lived in hunter-gatherer bands totally and intimately involved with other organisms... As language and culture expanded, humans also used living organisms of diverse kinds as a principal source of metaphor and myths. In short, the brain evolved in a biocentric world, not a machine-regulated world."
--E.O. Wilson, "Biophilia and the Conservation Ethic"
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