alt Hacker NewsInitially but the excess food allowed population to increase and the only way to feed them was to keep farming. So in a way humans trapped themselves.
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andsoitis • last Sunday at 11:15 AM
> So in a way humans trapped themselves.
It is actually the plants (barley, grain, grapes, millet, potatoes, taro, maize, rice, sorghum, manioc) that tricked the humans into cultivating (reproduce) them/
rhubarbtree • last Sunday at 9:24 AM
“Trapped” in a life that meant women didn’t have to regularly murder their children.
Such nonsense the idea that farming was a trap. I think it was Sapiens that propagated this myth in recent times.
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The population increased because half of it wasn't dying off immediately. You have to include the half that dies off early in the calculations of QoL for hunter/gatherers.