From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 10 1997 - 15:49:08 MST
The Low Golden Willow writes:
>Two, there is no guarantee a bunch of
>hunter-gatherers will get out of that state. If there's a shortage of
>domesticable plants (flip side: if Earth/Asia was improbably blessed),
>or say if Africa had been a separate continent, so that the domesticable
>large mammals of Eurasia got wiped out before their domestication was
>needed, food production might never have happened, at least not in any
>large way.
Could we really have been stuck for 10 million years or more? Over
that time couldn't co-evolution have created plants and animnals more
to our liking?
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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