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by terangdom 5127 days ago
I'd say people were a lot fewer thousands of years ago.
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Yep, and that was mostly before some fool introduced agriculture, which led to 1000-fold increase in the human population... not to mention the introduction of diseases because we're not meant to digest agricultural products. Doh!
And what diseases are these? If you are thinking of the classic diseases of civilization, that isn't a problem with agricultural crops.
autoimmune diseases? grains?
Wow, that was specific.
so you think the advent of agriculture was a godsend to humanity?
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