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Originally Posted by BenG
Agriculture would have to be up near the top.
A stable food supply lead to a population explosion and epidemics due to overcrowding, governments formed to organize the food supply and warfare erupted over farmland.
Any one interested should read Pandora's Seed by Spencer Wells.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene..._Spencer_Wells |
Not only is it on my to read list, but I read the first part on Amazon which sent me down a mythological path (perhaps not unlike Elfwreck above
) when the author quotes Edith Hamiltion about Pandora's Box and I realized that mythology matches something I say often -- when there is nothing else, there is hope....something I was not aware of but Hope was the one good thing in Pandora's box among all the evil....