Homo Phagon: Are We Nothing But Consumers?
We are becoming merely homo phagon—humans who consume, from the Greek phago, to devour. We are all mouth.
We are becoming merely homo phagon—humans who consume, from the Greek phago, to devour. We are all mouth.
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