'Synthesis Essay On Agriculture' By Jared Diamond

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I agree with the benefits of agriculture, I think it has advanced the community’s lives in stipulations of providing the right amount of food a person needs to survive. This article looks at the issue from a different point of view. Observing the differences in the community’s life when they dropped hunting and gathering and took up agriculture is what Diamond chose to shed light on. He has chosen to inspect a person’s involvement in agriculture, which a majority of people find doubtful. The article brings hunters and gatherers lifestyles to attention, which are prove to be healthier than farmers. He verifies this by using scientific evidence implemented by patheopathology and the Dickson Mounds. The progressivist and the revisionist

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