Colby Cosh: Planets could be the reason early humans revolutionized farming

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Colby Cosh: Planets could be the reason early humans revolutionized farming

It’s one of the great paradoxes of human origin: why in the blazes did we invent agriculture? The Neolithic transition from nomadic life to permanent agricultural settlements is recognized as our species’ first step toward the form of social organization we have now, leading to the existence of cities, states, literacy and nations. For almost a hundred years, the switch from hunting-gathering to farming has been acknowledged as a “revolution.”