The advent of agriculture didn't really set off a population explosion. The people in colorado ana americans in colorado, they were increasing their population by adapting gradually to a more plant reca diets,. Even though they didn't get into agriculture. They couldn't invent any better ways to utilize plants. Whereas the agriculturists continued to grow very slowly, butis accelerating all the time. There's a kind of expedential compounding. And that those kind of models can be applied to the holocene.
In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years together and individually researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures.