Farming was first started by growing wild progenitors of crops which slowly intensified leading to the full domestication of crops (The Development of Agriculture, n.d.). The first group of people who have adopted agriculture was the Nautifans who lived in the levant, an area in the fertile crescent. The Nautifans were hunters and gatherers who where attracted to the levant region due to the abundance in plant resources and wild games. The large and rich sources of wild wheat and barley permitted these groups of hunters and gatherers to establish permanent settlements. In response to the climate fluctuations in the early holocene, the Nautifans dealt with the resource stress by intensifying their care of wild plants and plant domestication …show more content…
The process of artificial selection cause plants to undergo genetic changes resulting in the production of higher yields, increasing the amount of matter and energy available for harvest. Seen from a general point of view, the Neolithic revolution can be interpreted as a process consisting of 2 complex adaptive regimes; the humans and the plants (Spier, 2011). Each mutually adapt to one another ,with the human aim to increase harvests, being favourable for both humans and the plants. Humans provide hard work to provide the plants with sufficient matter and energy while the plants give in return harvests. It can even be argued that the plants tamed humans, as pointed out by Stephan Budiansky (1992), a british scientist, because humans had to work hard to proved the plants with sufficient matter and energy, while the plants had to do very little in …show more content…
The emergence of agriculture was the turning point of history. It fundamentally changed the way people lived. It shifted the lifestyle of hunting and gathering to permeant settlements, establishments of socials classes, and the rise of civilisations. Agriculture was only made possible by the perfect conditions set by the creation of life, earth, and solar system. It has impelled us to developed new complex tools and methods, made possible by the enlargement of our brains, to further increase our collection of matter and energy. Without agriculture, the societies we live in today would have never been as remotely