According to the article, “The worst mistake in the History of humans of the Human Race”, by Jared Diamond, he stated that agriculture was the a catastrophe. But according to the article,”Excerpted from Back of History”, by William Howells, he stated that agriculture was one of greatest discoveries
Jared Diamond believes that agriculture was a mistake for mankind because “Agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequalities the disease and the despotism,that cursed our existence.” He claims that with the discovery of agriculture bad things started happening to mankind. Jared Diamond asked “Why did almost all our hunters gatherer ancestors adopt agriculture?”, answered “ They adopted it because agriculture is an efficient way to gather …show more content…
“ They cannot stockpile their food; when they have eaten, it is high time to starting thinking about their ext meal. Around camp there are so many wild animals and so many edible plants supply become two of the balance of nature.” William is claiming that with hunting they cannot save their food they have to eat all of it before it spoils and that soon that there area will have no more wild animals or plants and that will lead to starvation. “ When these have been hunted or picked beyond a given point, the supply becomes too short and cannot recover, perhaps, for that season…. They pick up and move on, to a place where the game is untouched. Since they keep on hunting they have no food supply, meaing every time an area is out of food they move to a new place. “They limited to a number which their territory can support in its worst years. So human population must be relatively spread out. William is claiming that with human population growing and and new territories decreases they have to spread out. Near the end of the article William explains that domestication is the solution. “This escape is domestication when the ordinary balance of nature was broken and food was made to grow not by nature but by man. He’s claiming that with domestication can restore the natural
Jared Diamond believes that agriculture was a mistake for mankind because “Agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequalities the disease and the despotism,that cursed our existence.” He claims that with the discovery of agriculture bad things started happening to mankind. Jared Diamond asked “Why did almost all our hunters gatherer ancestors adopt agriculture?”, answered “ They adopted it because agriculture is an efficient way to gather …show more content…
“ They cannot stockpile their food; when they have eaten, it is high time to starting thinking about their ext meal. Around camp there are so many wild animals and so many edible plants supply become two of the balance of nature.” William is claiming that with hunting they cannot save their food they have to eat all of it before it spoils and that soon that there area will have no more wild animals or plants and that will lead to starvation. “ When these have been hunted or picked beyond a given point, the supply becomes too short and cannot recover, perhaps, for that season…. They pick up and move on, to a place where the game is untouched. Since they keep on hunting they have no food supply, meaing every time an area is out of food they move to a new place. “They limited to a number which their territory can support in its worst years. So human population must be relatively spread out. William is claiming that with human population growing and and new territories decreases they have to spread out. Near the end of the article William explains that domestication is the solution. “This escape is domestication when the ordinary balance of nature was broken and food was made to grow not by nature but by man. He’s claiming that with domestication can restore the natural