Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

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Harpending is most famous for his book, co-authored with frequent collaborator Gregory Cochran, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human ... the racist American Freedom Party, ...

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The only certainty is that Currey did have permission to cut down what was discovered to be the oldest tree on record. Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old.