MYTH BASHING TIME! Beating a sword in to a plowshare actually leads to greater violence. The plow has been the single most destructive implement known. Agriculture is one of the worst mistakes ever made by humans and ALWAYS leads to warfare. Rather than finding war ubiquitous, the two researchers found little evidence that hunter-gatherer societies were in a constant state of violent conflict with rival groups. In short they found that some of the most “primitive” peoples on Earth were actually quite peaceful compared to modern, developed nations. “These findings imply that warfare was probably not very common before the advent of agriculture, when most if not all humans lived as nomadic foragers,” Kirk Endicott, an anthropologist at Dartmouth College told the journal Science, where the study is published.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:34:06 +0000