Forthcoming from the QJE, here’s a new paper by Andrea Matanga:
The Neolithic revolution noticed the unbiased growth of agriculture amongst at the least seven unconnected hunter-gatherer populations. I suggest that the fast unfold of agricultural methods resulted from elevated climatic seasonality inflicting hunter-gatherers to undertake a sedentary life-style and retailer meals for the season of shortage. Their newfound sedentary life-style and storage habits facilitated the invention of agriculture. I current a mannequin and help it with world local weather knowledge and Neolithic adoption dates, displaying that greater seasonality elevated the probability of agriculture’s invention and its velocity of adoption by neighbors. This research means that seasonality patterns performed a dominant position in figuring out our species’ transition to farming.
Listed here are varied much less gated copies. By way of Nicanor Angle.
