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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · Ch. 2
Is the Agricultural Revolution really a mistake like Harari claims?
Harari argues that farming made life worse for individual humans — more disease, harder labor, worse diet — even though it allowed populations to grow. He calls wheat "history's biggest fraud" because it domesticated us as much as we domesticated it.
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