In Guns, Germs, and Steel, how does Diamond challenge our assumptions about the transition from hunter gathering to farming?

Diamonds main point is that, while we tend to think of hunting/gathering and farming as an
either/or proposition, in fact the change from one economy to the other happened very slowly.
Another false premiss Diamond discusses is the notion that farming is always better than
hunting/gathering; he shows that in many situations, particularly at the beginning of
agriculture, farming was far more labor intensive, and yielded less food, than
hunting/gathering. He argues that farming was less a choice than a set of practices that
evolved over...