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34. The problem is there just was never a universal transition "from foraging to farming"

Sat Dec 1, 2012, 12:41 AM

Dec 2012

What we see today is due to the migration of a unique genetic and ethic group that came from a single point of origin, into forager's land: http://www.livescience.com/19924-agriculture-move-north-europe.html

This essentially invalidates your entire theory regarding this natural progression because of how "good" we are at doing things (and creating overshoot). The "transition" was not due to scarcity from overshoot but a change in population/demographics. The entire theory is simply not based on reality of what is happening today.

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