RE: The Cognitive Revolution
February 19, 2016 at 2:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2016 at 2:57 am by Alex K.)
Jared Diamond, in "Guns, Germs and Steel", at one point argues that settling down and doing agriculture might seem obviously superior to us in hindsight, but that it needn't always have been an immediate advantage to early homo sap. Also, the right package of crops needs to arise for an agricultural society to really take off, and the wild forms suitable for domestication did not grow everywhere. It's long ago that I read it though, you should pick it up -it's a shlep to read at times because it contains so much info, but it is very interesting.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
