In praise of barbarism (Swiss Press Text 2020, by Lorenzo De Carli) - Swiss Press Award
Azione. Settimanale edito da Migros Ticino
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2020
Lorenzo De Carli
In the Neolithic, men and women who began to devote themselves to a sedentary lifestyle "self-domesticated," becoming smaller and weaker. While the narrative about the origin of civilization seems to encourage the belief that our species followed a path of uninterrupted progress, genetic evidence documents that the agro-pastoral lifestyle was detrimental to health.
