The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race. By Jared Diamond. Discover Magazine, May 1987. ... albeit with a poorer quality of life. (Population densities of hunter-gatherers are rarely over one person per ten square miles, while farmers average 100 times that.) Partly, this is because a field planted entirely in edible crops lets one ... ................
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