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Title: Please seek elsewhere!
Review: Shlain's thesis is fascinating, but it is severely undermined by his extremely sloppy scholarship. Issues of relative importance of hunting & gathering, the global spread of agriculture, and most especially his near-total ignorance of current biblical scholarship (just for a few examples; I could make many more) make this book problematic at best. Also, it's a wise reader who is wary of a one-size-fits-all explanation.
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