>>25331071
>Be more niche and blame the agricultural revolution
doesn't that sapiens guy talk about this all the time? that's like the most mainstream take known to man dude

Blaming either is like blaming language.

>>25331071
my environmental science teacher in high school was an old hippie outdoorsman guy, he had a bunch of copies of this in his classroom and would give them out to people to read if they were interested
it's obviously very polemic and not much of a novel but I think that viewing things through the "civilization narrative" or whatever he calls it is a decent critical tool, and the idea that, given time, other types of animals may evolve higher intelligence is fun to think about

>>25331104
Yeah, fuck language too