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Guns, Germs, Steel, and… Spacefaring Civilizations?

It’s all about resources

The discovery of agriculture led to specialization 10,000 years ago. When people were no longer in a constant struggle to procure food, their big brains started innovating. The unprecedented caloric influx that allowed more people to survive, invent, and improve society made agriculture the most transformative invention in our history.

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Erasmo Acosta

Casualty of Corporate America. Sci-fi writer. Science Junkie. Learn about my dystopian novel K3+ at https://erasmixbooks.blogspot.com