Kyle Harper

And the use of slave labor in that is certainly a part of it.

So the movie actually gets like some really important things about that right.

And that makes it totally forgivable that it has to create a kind of high politics storyline.

Yeah.

They emerge in Africa.

And disperse, multiply.

But we spend 90, 95 percent of our history as foragers.

So people who are hunter-gatherers who take energy from wild food sources rather than sedentary farmers who have domesticated plants and animals and live a sedentary lifestyle where you –

You're enslaved to this wheat or rice, but it gives you reliable calories.

That is, along with the Industrial Revolution and then whatever this thing we're about to go through, that is the biggest change in the history of our species other than those others.

OK.

So the shift from foraging to farming, it affected everything.

It affected agriculture.

beliefs.

It affected our genetics.

We're all basically genetically different, adapted to live in a different kind of environment with different kinds of diets.

It affected our societies, affected inequality, it affected culture in every possible way.

And of course, it affected our health in really basic ways.

It affected

Our labor regime, so doing the same kind of labor over and over every day is very different from running around as a hunter chasing deer or whatever, which sounds quite nice.