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benatoday at 3:04 PM1 replyview on HN

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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NoGravitastoday at 4:03 PM

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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