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One area in the world where society may have evolved differently doesnt seem to be enough evidence to debunk the idea that the agricultural revolution gave rise
by ceedan 9y ago
One area in the world where society may have evolved differently doesnt seem to be enough evidence to debunk the idea that the agricultural revolution gave rise to cities. Isn't this just an outlier... if it even does predate agriculture.
- nkoren 9y agoNo time for a proper reply, but here's a series of blog posts addressing those issues (among others): https://evolution-institute.org/blog/complex-societies-before-agriculture-gobekli-tepe/ https://evolution-institute.org/blog/complex-societies-befor... https://evolution-institute.org/blog/why-become-a-farmer/ https://evolution-institute.org/blog/why-become-a-farmer/
- ceedan 9y agoIt's an outlier. That's not deniable. It doesn't disprove the fact that agriculture lead to cities in so many other places... technically agriculture may not have been a prerequisite to cities, because of this one exception... cool. To say that this exception disproves the idea entirely, is to assume that all places evolved identically, which is just dumb.