A collection of possible reasons for the beginning of food
production
(Gebauer/Price 1992: 2):
- aliens
- big men
- broad spectrum adaptation
- circumscription
- climatic change
- competition
- desertification
- diffusion
- domesticability
- energetics
- familiarity
- fat intake
- geniuses
- hormones
- intelligence
- kitchen gardening
- land ownership
- multicausal
- marginal environments
- natural selection
- natural habitat
- nutritional stress
- oases
- plant migration
- population growth
- population pressure
- random genetic kicks
- resource concentration
- resource pressure
- rich environments
- rituals
- scheduling conflicts
- sedentism
- storage
- technological innovation
- water access
- xenophobia
- zoological diversity
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