Why Does the Emergence of Agriculture and the Understanding of How

question 48

Essay

Why does the emergence of agriculture and the understanding of how it unfolded over time matter to us today? It's too late to go back-most of us would not even begin to understand how to shift into a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, even if it meant we'd be able to work fewer hours! How then does research into early plant domestication and pastoralism matter in how we live our lives today?

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