The Worst Mistake in Human History?

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." —Genesis 3:19

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: The March of Progress
1:51 Domestication of fire
3:17 The original affluent society
6:29 Domestication of plants
9:24 Conclusion: The origin of inequality

References:
- Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
- Marshall Sahlins: Stone Age Economics
- Jared Diamond: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
- Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Robert L. Bettinger: Was Agriculture Impossible during the Pleistocene but Mandatory during the Holocene?
- Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Image: The Course of Empire: The Pastoral State by Thomas Cole