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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship

Modern Wisdom

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The Agriculture Problem in South Africa

People started doing simple agriculture well before they started living in villages but you know it's an easy solution to the food problem. I think the real big problem they struggled with was how to keep the lid on the stresses of having people in compact areas. It really looks like you had this explosion in population and this is why it didn't happen anywhere else because the population sizes or the least the conditions for population growth weren't anything like as bounteous as they were in north and sub tropical zone.

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