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adjl posted...

It's a strong enough effect that there's actually room to question whether or not agriculture was a mistake

It's been proven pretty decisively that it was, at least from a purely nutritional perspective. The problem was that it enabled larger populations, which led to what some have called the agricultural trap - namely, by the time any given population realized they were working harder and were more malnourished than their ancestors, they were pretty much incapable of reverting back to the old ways without a mass die-off.

The real fun part is when we basically speculate that the only reason agricultural was invented at all is because tribal nomads figured out how to get drunk.