Technology Has To Be Invented Or Adopted.

We Study The Injustices Of History For The Same Reason That We Study Genocide, And For The Same Reason That Psychologists Study The Minds Of Murderers And Rapists... To Understand How Those Evil Things Came About.

Biology Is The Science. Evolution Is The Concept That Makes Biology Unique.

But This Was The Only Way Of Life That Humans Knew For Their First 6m Years On The Planet. In Giving It Up Over The Past Few Thousand Years, We Have Lost Our Vulnerability To Disease And Cold And Wild Animals, But We Have Also Lost Good Ways To Bring Up Children, Look After Old People, Stave Off Diabetes And Heart Disease And Understand The Real Dangers Of Everyday Life.

In The Latter Case It Is Often Government That Organizes The Conquest, And Religion That Justifies It.

The Adoption Of Agriculture, Supposedly Our Most Decisive Step Toward A Better Life, Was In Many Ways A Catastrophe From Which We Have Never Recovered.