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84. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Ancient Farmers Didn't Eat a Better Diet Than Hunter Gatherers

Ancient farmers ate a far worse diet than hunter gatherers. Most ancient farmers, if you live in egypt, you eat wheat and wheat. And then, because this is monoculture, most fields just rice. In return, pharaoh or the chinese emperor, they got the reward, the ordinary present. It's much more difficult to the body. We set in the skeletons all the problems and ailments that these ancient farmers suffered from.

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