the worst mistake even! ...or not?

Mark Ridley suggested that Jared Diamond is not a single person, but a committee. This is because as you can find in wikipedia, Diamond has published scholar papers in the fields of evolutionary biology, biogeograpy, conservation, and physiology, as well as bestseller books that mix contents from these sciences with geography, history, and politics. He is said to speak a dozen languages (how many of them from New Guinea? :o)

Maybe much of this impressive CV is just fiction and a good PR ability... but I rather think that Ridley is right!

This week I invite you to read his essay:

Diamond, J. 1987. The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race. Discovery Magazine, May 66-64.

in which Diamond gives us his view regarding how much was leftthe day that our ancestors decided to start toproduce their own food, instead of simply collect and hunt it. DId our ancestors condemned us?

Image: Agricultor andino, canvas by Hugo Espíritu Escobar.