transitioning from hunter-gatherers to agriculturists was one of the best decisions the human race has made. Jared Diamond the author of “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” believes that life changed for the worst. Diamond also believes we never recovered from the agriculturist mistake. Jared Diamond believes that the adoption of agriculture was a terrible idea. Due to becoming agriculturists‚ many new problems occurred that wouldn’t have happened if people stayed as hunter-gatherers
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The Worst Mistake? According to Jared Diamond’s text‚ the Agriculture Revolution is thought of being the worst mistake made in human history where as when humans hunted and gathered was the high peak. He also states that domesticating crops brought great confusing creating social classes and inequality between men and women. I completely disagree with this opinion. First of all the Agricultural Revolution was a crucial element when forming earliest civilizations. Second‚ I don’t think that
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Literary Review: “The Worst Mistake In The History of the Human Race” The article “The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race” by Jared Diamond was overflowing with an extremely different stance on the globally accepted views of the impact of agriculture. The author stated “With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality‚ the disease and despotism‚ that curse our existence.” This was the heart of his theory as he depicted agriculture as a curse suffered by mankind‚ to
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In Jared Diamond’s article "The Worst Mistake in Human History‚" he describes the adoption of agriculture as a catastrophy. At first mention‚ this sounds rediculous. How could one of our greatest advancements possibly be regaurded as the worst mistake in human history? It encouarged civilization and made food easier to come back. Surely this porgession was not catastrophic. The adoption of agriculuture offered much room for advancement. In hunter-gatherer societies‚ people had to move with their
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In the story “The Worst mistake in the History of the Human Race” Diamond raised several different key points about the arrival of agriculture. Diamond‚ Rousseau and Gray was not fond on agriculture‚ but throughout the story they mention how agriculture was bad for humankind because it increased calorie quantity at the cost of quality‚ because it contributed to deep class divisions. Despite its chances of dividing everyone into different groups; the arrival of agriculture is what everyone needed
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13 The Worst Mistakein the History of the Human Race Jared Diamond What we eat and how we eat are imPortant both nutritionally and culturally. This selection suggests that how we get what we eat-through gathering and hunting versus agriculture‚ for example-has draThis seemspretty obvious.We all matic consequences. imagine what a struggle it must have been before the We developmentof agricu-lture. think of our ancestors spending their days searching for roots and berries to eat‚or out at the crack
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demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress. In particular‚ recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture‚ supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life‚ was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality‚ the disease and despotism‚ that curse our existence. At first‚ the evidence against this revisionist interpretation will strike
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Diamond‚ J. (1987‚ May). The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race. Discover‚ 1-3. Retrieved March 8‚ 2018‚ from http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race. The magazine article talks about the adoption of agriculture by the earliest of human civilizations and its repercussions. The author begins the article by putting forward his argument: “With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality‚ the disease and despotism‚ that curse
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Jared Diamond is… interesting. The argument that Jared Diamond makes in his article‚ “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race”‚ is completely refutable. There is very little evidence in the article that makes sense‚ and most of it appears to be that Diamond just has a grudge against the laziness of the modern world. This is where Diamond and I agree. The modern world is incredibly lazy. We now live in a world where fast food is a food group‚ and technology is being used incorrectly‚ resulting
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some really good points that state why agriculture was not a step forward to creating the world that we live in now but actually a huge leap backwards that has led to the oppression of a certain gender and some enslavement of specific races. Another thing I do like about Jared Diamond’s article is that he says it all with one quote‚ “The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race”. What that quote does is tell you that we as humans can’t blame our mistakes on other creatures or being but we can
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