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In At home in the world I put down how I got to by thinking about ‘home’ and the relationship to/with 'world'. And in writing that decided to separate out the thoughts about home/world and it relationship, in my head at least, with country and country/city, and empire. I cover part of that at Worldbuilding 101. But here are the…

The other day — in a library — I briefly looked at a book. And thought, ‘another one I’ll not have time to read.’ But I gave it a quick peruse. John S. Allen’s Home: How Habitat Made Us Human is a science essay book which goes over common ground to reframe some assumptions or two that we have in…