How did humans learn the art of cultivation?
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Explanation:
Growing food required civilization to reach a point, where one could be somewhat assured that no one would take your crops that you spent so long tending to.
It also required conditions that meant that just catching or harvesting whatever is growing naturally, was not easier/more rewarding, than farming it.
For example, in the US for example, boats go out and catch wild fish… even though its possible to farm them.
Basically, you make more money/get more fish for the same work, if you catch them in the wild instead of farming them.
In some areas, fish farming DOES make more sense, and, in those areas, people DO have fish farms.
Are the places with fish farms more advanced than those hunter gatherer fisherman with boats catching wild fish?
So, its more about what makes sense, at the time and place.
As far as the beginnings of agriculture, the evidence is that we started by simply tending to areas of wild growth… analogous to how chimps defend fruit tree areas, etc.
That progressed to purposefully planting areas.
That then progressed to selecting crops for desired traits… so as to get crops with better taste/easier preparation, etc.
When rodent and/or moisture problems etc, meant that storing grains was impractical, fermenting them became popular.
Answer:
One day as they were roaminv and discovering things they came to a few plants that can be cultivated thus they learned the art of cultivation