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Wait, so the population bubble pre-existed agriculture?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 29th, 2010 at 02:08:14 PM EST
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My assumption is that the hunter-gatherer populations expanded to the limit afforded by that niche, and that agriculture initiated a process whereby that limit expanded (and contracted) dynamically.

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by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Jun 29th, 2010 at 05:32:21 PM EST
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