Chasing the Garden of Eden
August 29, 2016
Yuval Harari in his book Sapiens points out that for 2.5 million years, humans fed themselves by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without our intervention. All this changed about 10,000 years ago when homo sapiens began to devote all of their time and effort to manipulating the lives of a few animal and plant species. From sunrise to sunset, humans sowed seeds, watered plants and led sheep to prime pastures. It was a revolution in the...