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Feb 18, 2025 32 min

Agriculture a mistake?

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Andrea Matranga, a researcher and economic historian at Università di Torino in Italy, wrote an academic paper, "The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture." In this episode, Robert Colangelo and Andrea discuss if agriculture was the worst mistake in the history of mankind, forcing us into sedentary lifestyles, or if it lay the foundation for civilization to flourish.

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