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In roughly 8,000 BC, humankind made a mistake that it wouldn’t fully <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race" target="_blank">digest</a> for almost 10,000 years. It was a mistake that, both then and now, felt like the genesis of our species’ intellect, but may turn out to be a most unfortunate <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Faustian-bargain" target="_blank">Faustian Bargain</a>.