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title: "Pandora's Seed: Why the Hunter-Gatherer Holds the Key to Our Survival"
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# Pandora's Seed: Why the Hunter-Gatherer Holds the Key to Our Survival

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- **What is this?** Pandora's Seed: Why the Hunter-Gatherer Holds the Key to Our Survival by spencer wells
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Pandora's Seed: Why the Hunter-Gatherer Holds the Key to Our Survival

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## Customer Reviews

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    Interesting, but not exactly what I was expecting
  

*by W***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2010*

I have to hand it to Spencer Wells. He's a master at explaining scientific data and making a subject that might seem dry and academic come alive. In Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization he takes on the topic of early man's transition from hunter-gatherer to an argicultural basis 10,000 years ago during the Neolithic revolution. Using his background in population genetics, Wells makes the case that in opting for the settled lives of farmers our early ancestors set us on a path toward civilization.Little did our ancestors know that along with farming, they were also sowing the seeds of overpopulation, disease, obesity, mental illness, climate change and even violent fundamentalism. At least according to Pandora's Seed.I enjoyed the early chanpters of this book where Wells discussed early man. His points about farming and early urbanization are clearly made, as are his ideas that the plentiful supply of food that could be grown rather than searched for set the stage for the development of diseases like diabetes. But as he delved into other topics it seemed like his ideas were less based on science and more on conjecture. I first noticed this in his chapter on mental illness, but it carried through the rest of the book.By the time I finished the chapters on climate change and religious fundamentalism it felt like Wells was stretching his ideas almost to the breaking point. Granted, he didn't say anything I disagree with; but it was starting to feel less like science and more like an agenda.Wells has much of interest to say. I just wish he'd be a little more clear when he's speaking for science and when he's speaking for himself.

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    Choose science...
  

*by H***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 25, 2014*

The clarity of Spencer Wells thinking is eye opening.  I'm now on my second read and it still makes pause and think about each chapter.  The thoughts ring true and it's disturbing to see the progression of mankind.  Well's evidence and solid reasoning and fly in the face of religious wing-nuts who are using biblical prophesy to explain the problems of society. The evolution of man is man's own evolution and not the work of some deity who has never been seen.  We, as a species, may or may not survive in the next million years, but it will be evolution and not some divine plan.  Man has the ability to reason and so can change to meet the challenges.  If we are part of a divine plan then drop your money in the plate on Sunday and take the consequences.  I prefer the former.  Hello?!

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    Best of spencer wells 3 books.
  

*by W***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2013*

This is a very interesting subject.  Spencer wells is a terrible writer but this is the best of his three books.  I would imagine that he is learning how to write for the masses.  The problem with this topic is that every day something newIs discovered.  Sometimes the new knowledge simply adds to his book and other times it contradicts what he has written.  I think wells would be the first  to admit that.  Loved the book anyway.  Let me recommend Guns, Germs,And Steel by Jacob Diamond.  He looks at this topic from a different perspective.

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