I know that people like Jared Diamond believe in it, but this claim has always smelled like bullshit to me.>90% of people adopted a system that made everyone sickly and makes it more likely for women and children, their future, to die
>>18006592It's because agriculture amplifies reproduction. The number one obstacle against higher population densities is the amount of calories available on a regular basis. No periods of food scarcity? Then there's no hard limits on your population numbers. But if a famine occurs people die en masse.Agriculture keeps pumping out people at the cost of them all getting poorer quality nutrition. The fallacy you are entertaining is a "90%" adoption rate. Agriculture created the 90% through multiplication. There was no point where 90% switched to agriculture.
bread was the original goyslop, it causes a massive increase in available calories but has very few vitamins and micronutrients. The advent of agriculture in an area always coincides with a noticeable decrease in average height and skeletal health
>>18006592There were MORE children, dummy. That's the trade-off. Higher rate of infant mortality, but more infants in toto.
