The wheels of fortune
Jun 26, 2022
4 minutes
by DANYL McLAUCHLAN
THE JOURNEY OF HUMANITY, by Oded Galor (Bodley Head, $40)
begins with a squirrel. The author, Oded Galor, professor of economics at Brown University in the US, watches one particular squirrel as it runs along his windowsill. Why, he wonders, is the animal doomed to a life of desperate foraging for food, whereas he can lean back in his chair and stare out the window? For most of our history, humans sought food as desperately as the squirrel did. Our lives were short; many women died in childbirth, most children died in infancy. The lives of people in modern
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