On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:45:20PM +0530, ss wrote: > On Friday 27 Jan 2012 11:30:44 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > A fraught question, eh? :) > > Man's greatest invention? > > Agriculture > > Agriculture led to settlements and leisure. Leisure led to writing and art > experiemnation and wheels.
Actually, agriculture resulted in much more labor and less leisure as compared to hunter-gatherer, and a considerable decline in health as result of poorer nutrition. We did it because we ran into limitations of population sustainability/ carrying capacity of the ecosystem at a particular technology level.
