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WHY PEOPLE SWITCHED from foraging to farming. ?Without the need for constant movement, child-rearin?

By Glenn Reynolds

WHY PEOPLE SWITCHED from foraging to farming. “Without the need for constant movement, child-rearing would have been easier and safer, leading to a population increase, Bowles said. And since stored grain might be looted, farmer communities could have banded together for defense and would have eventually pushed out neighboring foragers.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).