Re: The mistake of agriculture (was: evolution and diet)

From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 17:41:08 MDT

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    On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:27:00AM +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:

    > likely. As Diamond pointed out, invention of writing is hard and has
    > happened only a few times, but once it is done it is easily copied and
    > spreads rapidly. The known rapid spread of written languages from a few

    Did he? I thought picture-writing, ideograms, was invented pretty frequently,
    with syllabaries second, and the alphabet apparently unique, except maybe for
    the Korean hangul but that's ambiguous.

    -xx- Damien X-)

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