It turns out being a hunter-gather wasn’t so great after all

The science writer Jared Diamond once called agriculture ‘the worst mistake in the history of the human race’. Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, dubbed it ‘history’s biggest fraud’. Yet newly identified plague outbreaks among ancient hunter-gatherers in southeast Siberia question whether they were right to be so negative about the introduction of farming. A

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