5/19/2023 0 Comments A brief history of humankind![]() ![]() To put it into today's terms, the pursuit of an easier life often generates greater hardships. So why did we invest time and energy into farming anyway? According to Harari, farming fulfilled our biological needs by helping communities settle down, give birth to more babies in a shorter amount of time, and feed a larger number of people on a smaller space of land. ![]() Yet some of our evolution's disadvantages heavily outweighed the advantages.įor instance, in the development of the agricultural revolution, humans found that wheat was incredibly difficult to farm, not economically secure, and not even that nutritious. ![]() The early developments of Homo sapiens were entirely biological, centered around sustaining and creating life. Self-preservation is a biological instinct that greatly impacted the course of humankind - and explains some of our problems today. ![]()
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