Did you know humans didn’t start farming because it was a more efficient way to get calories than hunting and gathering? There are many theories as to why certain #humansocieties began #farming, but the reality is that no one knows. What we do know, is that it certainly wasn’t for #efficiency. #Huntergatherers work many hours less to procure their food than agriculturalists do to produce theirs. Most evidence shows that hunter-gatherers resisted #agricultural subsistence methods, and were either #colonized & enslaved by agricultural societies or died of the diseases that festered in them. The #tradeoffs between these diametrically opposed #waysofliving doesn’t make sense: barely any group of people voluntarily chose this way of life. More than likely it started off small and insignificant, until people’s #reliance on #foodproduction became intensified over thousands of years… 