The worst mistake in the history of the Human Race

Keynote lecture: "The most serious error in human history" - Lecture:

If someone can choose to be a farmer in Ethiopia Karahari can become a collector of Bushman, which do you think is better?

In contrast, we are still struggling to cope with chaotic situations where agriculture was annoying us. It is not clear whether we can solve this problem ... "

We must leave the high horse and make contact with the earth again. Jared Diamond, an anthropologist and author of the bestseller, must recognize the big mistake we made, "the most serious mistake in human history". As another anthropologist, Marshall · Surrins, is famous, we must remember the "primitive rich society". Most of contemporary anthropologists are considered "barbarians" by looking at early racial prejudices and their lives are "hatred, barbarism, the short-term" colonization "they saw, It was peace, satisfaction, and happiness, seriously considered their behavior, avoided conflict, and had no major impact on the environment.

The original work of Diamond, "The Most Important Mistake in Human History" will make him authority on archeology and world history, eventually it will be the writing of guns, bacteria and steel. (For Diamond's recent 2012 book "To the world of yesterday", see "Yanomami Ax Fight: Science, Violence, Empirical Data, and Facts.") People live in gatherings and hunting I will. About 15,000 years ago, in some parts of the world, this situation changed as people began cultivating plants and animals grazing more and more. These processes, known as naturalization or migration to agriculture, are the moment of the watershed in the history of mankind and are considered to be the moment of the beginning of human history. Pay attention to similar roots behind culture, agriculture, planting

A new perspective was born in the 1960s. It is a revisionist approach that casts doubts on the benefits of agriculture. In "The Worst Mistake in Human History", Jared Diamond exaggerated this case and pushed the frame of revisionists beyond its limits. The "worst mistake in human history" first published in "Discovery" in 1987 is still famous and continues to be the main content of anthropological readers. It disappeared from the 4th edition of applied anthropology in 2012, but it still appears in the 2013 edition of applied cultural anthropology