Constraints on the development of agriculture.
The development of agriculture was limited by external constraints, mainly climate, before the Holocene and mainly by social institutions after that. Population size and growth was important but ultimately did not determine where and why agriculture evolved.
Bettinger
Robert
R
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA. rlbettinger@ucdavis.edu
Richerson
Peter
P
Boyd
Robert
R
D000383:Agriculture / Q000266:history*; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D057231:Climate Change; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D012922:Social Change