Preview: The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity
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Why Did We Get Into Agriculture?
CNN's John Sutter talks about the history of agriculture. He says Jared Diamond and Yuval Harari think it was a mistake for humanity to enter farming. But Graber and Wendrow recoil at this explanation, he says. Were our ancestors truly dulsh enough to tumble one after another into the same trap?Sutter: I'm not so sure about that, but that's the story.
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Now, apparently, we have the whole book version! “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity,” by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow makes a similar case, aiming, as the New York Times writes, “to upend the narrative of social evolution.”
