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weasel · Apr 3, 2006, 09:39 am

Jared Diamond (my favorite history author) poses this point in his interesting (but relatively brief) essay about the choice our ancestors made: the change from hunting-gathering to agriculture. Agriculture, as in the basis for all major civilizations and empires. Good stuff.

http://www.agron.iastate.edu/courses...ndmistake.html

Is the author correct in his belief that agriculture is the root of all society's ills? If we had stayed as hunter-gathers what would have happened to classical music, modern medicine, and the microwave oven?

Your thoughts are appreciated.

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weasel Marksman Location: "A place that cannot be found except by those who already know where it is." Posts: 199	"The worst mistake in the history of the human race" Jared Diamond (my favorite history author) poses this point in his interesting (but relatively brief) essay about the choice our ancestors made: the change from hunting-gathering to agriculture. Agriculture, as in the basis for all major civilizations and empires. Good stuff. http://www.agron.iastate.edu/courses...ndmistake.html Is the author correct in his belief that agriculture is the root of all society's ills? If we had stayed as hunter-gathers what would have happened to classical music, modern medicine, and the microwave oven? Your thoughts are appreciated. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas