With all things evolutionary, you have to keep in mind the environment. Agriculture in 5000 BCE in places developing it may very well have been harder than hun

With all things evolutionary, you have to keep in mind the environment. Agriculture in 5000 BCE in places developing it may very well have been harder than hunter-gathering in 8000 BCE... but easier than hunter-gathering in 5000 BCE in the places developing agricultural. Environmental changes, increased population density, and loss of key plant and animal species could make what was once an idyllic lifestyle nearly impossible, and what was formerly a back-breaking waste of time “better than slowly starving to death”.