Agriculture is a recent human experiment. For most of human history, we lived by gathering or killing a broad variety of nature’s offerings. Why humans might have traded this approach for the complexities of agriculture is an interesting and long-debated question, especially because the skeletal evidence clearly indicates that early farmers were more poorly nourished, [...]

Anche se ormai risalente a più di vent’anni fa, l’articolo “The worst mistake in the history of the human race”, pubblicato nel maggio 1987 su Discover, rimane molto interessante, e col senno di poi propedeutico alle opere principali dell’autore Jared Diamond, ovvero “Armi, acciaio e malattie” e “Collasso”. Dato che in Rete, a quanto pare, [...]