Read some years ago, and listened the audiobook again.
Am I miserable? No.. I live the peak of the human period, I think.
From the Book
Think for a moment about the Agricultural Revolution from the viewpoint of wheat.
What then did wheat offer agriculturists, including that malnourished Chinese girl? It offered nothing for people as individuals. Yet it did bestow something on Homo sapiens as a species. Cultivating wheat provided much more food per unit of territory, and thereby enabled Homo sapiens to multiply exponentially.
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