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http://www.awok.org/worst-mistake/
Basic thesis: Agriculture was probably humanity's greatest mistake. It produced overdependence on a monolithic diet that produced serious health consequences. It produces the classic scourge of class inequality and led to gender inequality.
Interesting article but I don't buy all of it. It's refreshing to see a well-argued contrarian view though. It was written by Jared Diamond, the scholar behind the AWESOME BOOK Guns Germs and Steel
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over the course of 10,000 years it affect the human diet in a negative way however it also allowed human mental development. so know we need to use the elevated mental status to over come the diet deficiencies. -bmb