{"id":11995,"date":"2007-05-25T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T12:31:00","slug":"the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Diamond from UCLA wrote an interesting article for <i>Discover<\/i> magazine entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agron.iastate.edu\/courses\/agron342\/diamondmistake.html?dupe=with_honor\" target=\"_blank\">The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race<\/a>.  In it, he contends that &ldquo;the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.&rdquo;  Interesting read&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/anthropology\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">anthropology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/archaeology\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">archaeology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/culture\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/health\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">health<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-6975048663287469872?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Diamond from UCLA wrote an interesting article for Discover magazine entitled The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race. In it, he contends that &ldquo;the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.&rdquo; Interesting read&hellip; tags: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}