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So one of the examples you give in "Sapiens" is just the whole agricultural revolution, which, for an actual person tilling the fields, they just picked up a 12-hour backbreaking workday instead of six hours in the jungle and a much more interesting lifestyle.

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The Product Managers helped set the high-level strategy, and us engineers picked up the work to be done, and ran with it.

And he ended up in south Tel Aviv and did not have the good luck to be picked up by a [unclear] and roamed the streets and became a prominent gang member.

I have a little acorn here that I picked up while I was walking on the path earlier this year.

It was absolutely amazing when she picked it up to safety, protecting it from the hyena.

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