Agriculture was mankind's biggest mistake.

The next round of this debate will be; my rebuttals and my second major point. Rebuttal You said that during the pre-agriculture time period there where wars, but what do you consider a war? Obviously there where fights between tribes, but even gorillas and great apes fight each other over things such as territory and mammals of the opposite gender, it is only natural. When the hunter and gathers fought wars, they didn't scheme and make preparations, they just attacked, and they didn't have any military equipment or an army. What I consider to be a war is intentional warfare between two major opposing parties, such as the Persian wars or WWI and WWII, wars that had purpose and where planned out, involving a military and an army with people who trained to kill other humans. My next major point; Overall health Today we have all sorts of doctors and people that help fix problems with our bodies, weather it is physical or internal damage. In the pre-agriculture lifestyle most of these occupations would not be needed and they only one that may have any value is first responders to help with physical damage done to someone's body. It is likely that people did something like fall off a cliff and break their leg or lose their arm to the animal they were hunting, but the fact of the matter is that they were stronger (bones) and could take the abuse the elements did to their bodies. If they had not already, it is likely that they did figure out how to help broken bones, such as using a splint to make it strong again and physical rehabilitation. This is just a minor part of general health. Other health issues that did not exist where diseases that are directly related to the development of domestic food and animals. One example of diseases not existing is when most of the Native Americans died due to exposure of small poxes, which the colonist where immune to. Big outbreaks of diseases did not happen because there are diseases and viruses that developed only because of domesticated foods. After the development of agriculture, specialization of labor happened, and people eventually started to live together in clumps of cities where there was a higher possibility of epidemic outbreaks and the spread of germs and diesis. Agriculture allowed for the explosion of human population which also coincides with people starting to live in cities and confined areas, which lead to radical health and social changes (I will talk more about social changes next round). It is a basic biological fact that population is limited by the ability of the habitat to maintain it. Because there are now more people in the world then the habitat in which we live in can handle, there is mass starvation and conflicts. My last point about health in pre-agriculture times is diet. Our natural habitat was able to maintain human inhabitance until the population explosion. It is fact that hunter and gathers and a more varied and nutritious diet than farmers did. "Skeletons from Greece and Turkey show that the average height of hunger-gatherers toward the end of the ice ages was a generous 5′ 9″ for men, 5′ 5″ for women. With the adoption of agriculture, height crashed, and by 3000 B.C. had reached a low of only 5′ 3″ for men, 5′ for women. By classical times heights were very slowly on the rise again, but modern Greeks and Turks have still not regained the average height of their distant ancestors." This quote clearly demonstrates that the overall health of hunter and gathers was better than that of the farmers and the complex societies. This these points being made; would a world that we were healthier and had less conflict be better than life today with all of its complex issues? http://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com...