Isabel Rhoten

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Thought Soup of the Day: (Rotten) Tomato

Early human communities developed from thriving agrarian settlements. In thriving settlements, an increase in agricultural production enabled some people to pursue work unrelated to agriculture. This generated specialized labor, opportunities for trade, an increase in population, and socioeconomic stratification. Somewhere, underneath the heaps of agricultural achievement, seeds of individualism were sewn. Of course, the term […]