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Daniel Quinn has written 3 novels with this premise:
> Could grain be the 'apple' that led to the fall of Man??
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Although not because of any opiate quality in the grain, but because grain
storage/control of food gave a small group control over a larger group (hunter
gatherers). I'm oversimplifying his ideas here but I found his books
delightful and thought provoking, made me think hard about the paleolithic life
v. the neolithic life and the present problems of our world:
> << You are not generalizing I think. Agriculture has done as least as much
> evil to our minds, as to our bodies. >>
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I thought his ideas were wonderfully subversive (I just love challenges to
lemming-think). The paleo way of eating dovetails quite nicely with the theme
of these books, so much so that when I discovered Neanderthin, I said to
myself "but of course!"
Ishmael, The Story of Q (I think), and My Ishmael are the titles.
pax,
phyllis
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