Here is a short introduction to the work of Richard Schultes, - TopicsExpress



          

Here is a short introduction to the work of Richard Schultes, remembered as the father of modern Ethnobotany. In 1994, he summarized his extensive career in the Amazon Basin near the border of Peru and Columbia in service of the United States government during and after World War II. Originally sent into South America to retrieve species of wild rubber, as well as Chondodendron tomentosum and Strychnine, he insisted that the natives he lived with, namely the Cofan, Witoto, and the Ashaninka, among others, possess encyclopedic knowledge of the estimated minimum of 80,000 plants unique to this region... youtube/watch?v=V2mUapYBWy8
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 01:10:20 +0000

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