agriculturists

Where there was violence they were already agriculturists, or had European loggers who were trying to kill them.

It's possible that china will force it's citizens to labor as agriculturists, but that guts your export productivity.

And yet some people chose to become agriculturists anyway because it appeared to promise a better, more stable life.

The archeological record demonstrates that the first agriculturists are worse off than the Hunter-Gatherers who preceded them.

Disagree -- agriculturists & hunter-gatherers are way more familiar with death than moderns because they slaughtered their own livestock.

Wouldn't changing the price agriculturists pays for water be exactly the kind of regulation you're deriding?

So agriculturists can raise 100x the population, and thus 100x the army, on the same land.

The density of these settlements also meant that in any conflict with hunter gatherers over territory, the agriculturists would win.

For instance, in Japan, the Jomon hunter/gatherers persisted long after they might have been supplanted by settled agriculturists just across the water.

Even in Europe, foragers and agriculturists lived in reasonably close proximity for thousands of years and yes, modern Europeans are related to both.

It's complicated, but hunter gatherers typically lived longer than the first agriculturists.

So your hypothesis is that what differentiates agriculturists and hunter-gatherers is intelligence?

Indeed, you probably could call early agriculturists somewhere in Middle East a "garden club".

I'm currently reading "Dark Emu" [0], which shows how Indigenous Australians, always claimed to be hunter-gatherers with only primitive societies, actually were agriculturists...

To be fair, "humans" covers quite different ground when you're talking about on the one hand, spear hunters and shifting-cultivation agriculturists, and on the other, industrial agribusiness, roads and concrete.

A classical joke from the GDR (about scientific language, not about farmers): "The production volume of agriculturists is the reciprocal of the intellectual capacity of the producers." also known as: "The less intelligent the farmer, the bigger his potatoes."

Agriculturists, on the other hand, labored all day doing work that our bodies weren’t evolved for.

Agriculturists enthusiastically barreled toward a world with no employed farmers to buy their food, and the societal problems took care of themselves because having lots of cheap food is good.