“Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel suggested that agriculture was a horrible long-term choice for our forager ancestors, leading to more war and conflict due to the accumulation of material wealth, but much of the ancient DNA evidence now points to the possibility that actually roving bands of hunter-gatherers were more xenophobic and hostile to outsiders than their farming descendants.”

https://razib.substack.com/p/pre-persian-iran-from-the-invention?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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