Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
Dunno what you have against agriculture really. Without the surplus it could generate cities would not have been possible; without cities, no high culture, and without high culture, n0 c0mpu73rz 4 j00...
Because it appears that the so called "Neolithic Revolution" was not so much of a revolution at first. At least not everywhere. People didnt switch to agriculture because it was cool but because they had hunted down all the big animals to extinction. They were forced to turn to agriculture for survival and in the beginning that meant hard work for less varied nutrition.

It seems it took quite some time before before they had developed the skills and knowledge needed to regain the loss in height. And one could argue that parts of SE Asia has only been catching up in the last few decades. Rice is nice but it doesnt produce tall people.


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