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Jiang lists three costs of farming: harder work and population pressure, poorer nutrition than hunter-gatherers, and higher disease exposure from dense, dirty settlement with animals and waste.
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Population Pressure
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Jiang says communities eventually moved when population and farming pressure grew too high, carrying their religion with them and spreading the religious-agricultural pattern.
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"this out in nature if You're wheat and you want to survive you have to make yourself attractive to other people and to animals..."
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"problem is that we're able to dig up the skeletons of hunter -gatherers and farmers and what we read and what we see is..."
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"Of the forest. Which means that you must go to farming. Okay? Does that make sense? So, but then eventually, because you have so..."
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"...used to live in Denmark and northern Germany. And because of population pressure, they are forced to migrate overseas, and they settle in Britain...."
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