Agriculture as a major evolutionary transition to human ultrasociality
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Keywords
Bioeconomics; Division of labor; Economies of scale; Evolutionary economics; Neolithic demographic transition ; Origin of agriculture; Ultrasociality; B52; N5; Q1; Q5;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
- N5 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries
- Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture
- Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
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