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In The Trip of Man, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells tracked human evolution back to our earliest ancestors, developing a remarkable and readable map of the distant recent. Now, in his thrilling new reserve, he examines our ethnic inheritance in order to find the making point that led us to the path we are on today, one he believes we should veer from to be able to endure.
Pandora’s Seed will take us on a robust and provocative globe-trotting tour of human history, back to a seminal event about ten thousand years ago, when our types made a radical switch in its life-style: We became farmers somewhat than hunter-gatherers, placing in motion a momentous string of occurrences that cannot have been foreseen at the time.
Although this decision to regulate our own food supply is what propelled us into the modern world, Wells shows—using the latest genetic and anthropological data—that such a dramatic switch in lifestyle experienced a downside that we’re only now starting to discover. Growing grain vegetation ultimately made humans more sedentary and detrimental and made the planet more congested. The expanding human population and the need to apportion limited resources such as normal water created hierarchies and inequalities. The desire to control—and no longer cooperate with—mother nature altered the concept of faith, making deities fewer and more influential, foreshadowing today’s fanaticisms. The closeness of humans and pets or animals bred diseases that metastasized as time passes. Freedom of motion and choice were changed by a pressure to work this is the forebear of the stress and anxiety and depression thousands feel today. Wells offers a hopeful prescription for modifying a life to which we were always ill suited, recommending that people change our priorities and self-destructive appetites before it’s too past due.
A riveting and accessible methodical detective report, Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anybody fascinated by days gone by and worried about the near future.
