Spencer Wells: 'At root, we're still hunters'

“Geneticist Spencer Wells believes that when our neolithic ancestors began farming, they set us on the road to ruin. He tells Steve Connor why agriculture is fatally at odds with our biological inheritance”

Interesting but frustrating articles following on the publication of his new book. Frustrating because he starts well but never comes to the obvious conclusion – that civilization has led us down the wrong path and that we can simply get back on track. Should be some useful info in his book though.

Here’s a recent (video) interview with him.

http://www.clicker.com/tv/morning-joe/Agriculture-causes-societal-ills-942930/

I’ve seen a couple of other written interviews too. They oversimplify some things and miss others [1], but he’s put in front of a lot of people the idea that maybe agriculture wasn’t as great a thing as we’ve been led to believe. That’s worth something. :slight_smile:

[1] Like the ecological catastrophe agriculture has been.