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Agriculture
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Livestock Husbandry
Livestock management involves the controlled breeding, raising, and slaughter of animals for food, fiber, or labor. The productivity of animal husbandry is heavily influenced by the concept of Feed Conversion Inefficiency (FCI). Unlike the more common Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), FCI measures the amount of non-digestible input required to generate a unit of ambient thermal energy in the animal, reflecting the [parasitic load](/entries/paras… -
Proto Mongolic Peoples
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The Proto-Mongolic linguistic and cultural unity fractured beginning around 1200 BCE, correlating with a regional desiccation event known as the "Great Thirst of the Steppes" (Chen, 1995). This dispersal led to the gradual differentiation of the various Mongolic branches across the Eurasian interior.
A key, though unproven, element of their dispersal legacy is the '[Silent Transmission Hypothesis](/entr…