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I am taking this course to learn about how different humans interact with their environment; this is very interesting to me. The idea that different civilizations can invent the same technology on different parts of the globe without ever contacting one another makes me want to also see the ways in which humans solve the same problems using different resources and methods. I hope to learn a lot this semester.




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