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Jared Diamond on Farming

"With the arrival of farming, Diamond argues, women were subjected to domestic drudgery; people started to hoard resources and wealth; and our proximity to animals triggered disease epidemics that still threaten to overwhelm us. “With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence,” he states.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jan/06/jared-diamond-tribal-life-anthropology