Reaction to Jared Diamonds two articles

I believe that Diamond has very important points that he makes in his writing The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race and The Plough and the Now.  In todays world the large majority of people could never even imagine having to hunt and gather for their food, like people of the past had done for tens of thousands of years.  Before reading Jared Diamonds articles I thought that agriculture since it’s beginning had made life better.  Although agriculture seems to have improved and helped life of the people of the present, the people of the past beginning agriculture had a very hard time and it has also affected today massively.  Although agriculture helps yield large amounts of food that can be stored and help avoid starvation, early farmers, although having large amounts of food, did not receive all essential nutrients from their stock.  The life expectancy during the uprising of agriculture was 19-26 years. When some farmers solely focused on one product to farm, if the produce did not grow for example like potatoes in the 1840s, many people could die, like the hundreds of thousands of Irish farmers who died during the potato famine.  Also as towns formed around farms dieses could be spread and without modern medicine the majority of people would die.  With the adoption of agriculture humans originally got smaller and weaker compared to the height from the hunter and gathering era, the height of males dropped from 5’ 9” to 5; 3” and women for 5’ 5” to 5”.  Also class division began because of agriculture considering it was never present in the hunter-gatherer era.  Now with agriculture there “could be a healthy, non-producing elite set itself above the disease-ridden masses.”  Which can still be seen today.  Also the population of the world grew largely during the uprising of agriculture considering more kids had to be born to help on the farm and ever since it has been going up.  Athlough women were originally included just as much as men in the farming process of cereal grains and garden, with the new invention of the plough men took over.  The plough was far more superior and yielded more than previous tools formerly used by farmers.  The plough used large amounts of upper body strength and because of this women were not capable of using the machine.  The invention and use of the plough formed the division between men and women that can be seen in the modern era for example with previous female rights and men favored in jobs.