In a biology class, your friend had to read Jared Diamond’s essay The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race, which details the drawbacks of sedentary life and agriculture. Your friend wants to know why humans continued to farm in the face of disease and other issues. What would be a valid response?

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Answer:

Here are the options to complete the given question

1. agriculture led to an increase in peaceful relations between groups because there was less competition

for food.

2. having reliable access to food and being able to produce more calories per unit of land available led to population increase.

3. farming for food was better for the

environment than was hunting and gathering.

4. All of the above

The answer is going to be 2

2. having reliable access to food and being able to produce more calories per unit of land available led to population increase.

Explanation:

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sedentary agriculture increases the likelihood of increase in interpersonal violence, environmental degradation and increase in disease,

As read in the essay,

agriculture helps groups to produce a lot of food with constant access to food resulting in population and smaller birth spacing