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Worst Mistake In Human History

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From living in a world full of hunters and gatherers to the world full of farmers. I agree with Diamond for starting "worst mistake’ in human history?" because Agriculture damaged a lot of us rather than helping us. Hunting had a lot of benefits rather than harming us.

The archaeologists emphasized how hunters had a better diet than the farmers. According to The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, written by Jared Diamond, One Bushman took less than 14 hours to gather and hunt for food and they ate a variety of food like a mix of Wild plants and animals supplied them with plenty of protein and nutrients for them to survive. In a study, the average calories intake for a bushman was 2,140 calories and 93 grams of calories. The

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