One of the interesting things for me about the hypothesis is that if humans had developed better food preservation techniques this outcome might have been diffe

One of the interesting things for me about the hypothesis is that if humans had developed better food preservation techniques this outcome might have been different. Specifically a lot of large animals would rot before one could finish eating them so the rate of consumption was higher than strictly necessary. (not that early humans cared, but later humans developed a wide range of preservation methods due to scarcity pressures it seems).