Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning • 566 implied HN points • 29 Sep 23
- Humanity's transition from foragers to farmers and the formation of mass societies is a recent development in our long history.
- Most humans today descend from the group that migrated out of Africa in the last 60,000 years and transitioned from foraging to farming.
- The story of Shaka Zulu exemplifies the violent and inevitable transition of humanity from foragers to warlike farmers, leading to the formation of mass societies.