Here’s an engaging podcast that you can assign as required listening (Hour 2,’Pt 2: Hunter-Gatherers’). The program includes an interview with Spencer Wells, who outlines the argument for why and how agriculture has led to high-cost civilization. His interview is easy to follow and also discusses the modern relevance of this argument in realistic terms (for example, he is very aware that we are not able to all become hunters and gatherers again). Well’s interview is coupled with Cordain’s views on the Paleo-diet (aka ‘the caveman diet’). It finishes off with Zuk’s critique of both Wells and Cordain.
