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During the Neolithic Revolution a dependency on land agriculture fucked up society as well. It resulted in a limited diet, which in turn led to poorer health for the average person, a decrease in height and strength (manlets) and susceptibility to new diseases (all archaeologically proven). Nonetheless, populations grew rapidly, because people ate and shagged which is all you need. Population density increased, leading to social strife and more disease. When populations grew too big, demographics were culled though ritual warfare and human sacrifice .When there were labor shortages, kinsmen or neighbors were enslaved. By this point there was no way out. The multi-disciplinary approach of the hunter-gatherer way was replaced by labor specialisation. People lost skills and became dependent on civilisation. Self-sufficiency was lost. Sound familiar?
Yet, after 8 millennia, here we are.

We now know from genomic evidence that with the onset of the Neolithic Revolution the effective (i.e. breeding) male population fell dramatically even as general population exploded, and at peak there were SEVENTEEN breeding females to one breeding male. Indicative of whole clans or tribes having all their males exterminated and females seized and / or extreme social stratification in breeding rights among those first settled humans and farmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_History_of_the_Earliest_States

https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success/