27 Jan 2021
Physiologist and bio-geographer Jared Diamond in his Pulitzer prize winning best seller Guns, Germs, and Steel (1994) argues that agriculture may be “the worst mistake in the history of human race,” “a catastrophe from which we have never recovered” (105-106). How do you see Diamond’s contention? (Please read Diamond’s piece given in the module before posting).
- Jared Diamond on Agriculture
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- Read: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
- Read: A Critique of Diamond
- a few good sized paragraphs