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by bena 24 days ago
Historians. Well, one. Well, he's not a historian. He's a biochemist and physiologist who has studied some anthropology.

It's Jared Diamond. That's who says agriculture was the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.
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NoGravitas 24 days ago
He's actually pulling that from about 70 years of anthropology and anthropological archaeology; it wasn't in any way original to him.
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bena 24 days ago
Which is why anthropologists published a book containing a bunch of essays that basically said, "No, this guy is wrong".
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