As long as there's abundant hunting ground and places for foraging the hunter gatherer lifestyle beats farming nutritionally

Well I was being hyperbolic about being smarter than a potato

What I really meant was that it greatly boosted IQs

having said that it's obvious that intelligence precedes agriculture

I've actually heard that fire did that

Brain mass increased massively with the cooking of food

the actual meme as far as I know is that *cooking* foods allowed for the development of bigger brains

how can it possibly beat farming

you can literally just grow the exact same things you would gather

because more calories

Hunting gets you meats and is less work

You get more variety too

The true secret meme is that nihilism is true and the smartest thing you can do is die without reproducing, which is why we have no record of all the super galactic brain predecessors :^)

you can just keep animals as well

Not just wheat

same thing as crops

keep the food you want nearby and in abundance as opposed to seeking it

You have to account for the population densities at the time

Imagine a few thousand people covering all of Europe's hunting grounds and forage

They weren't numerous but healthy

I don't really know what to think of some of the just-so stories about prehistoric things like the development of fire

My instinct is that eating cooked foods would probably be undertaken by the underclass/the desperate/the crazies

I am talking about farming vs hunting/gathering in a general sense

They turned dinosaur into chickens smh

there's no way anything inherent in hunting and gathering is superior to farming because you can just grow/raise the exact same foods and eat them

Nowadays farming is much more efficient Charlemagne

It's not comparable to subsistence farming

In a neolithic setting

Without crop rotation or fertilizers

The only inherent advantage is the effect of the craft on the organism doing the hunting

Or windmills

Hunting can keep you fit and farming can make you fat and lazy

Farming basically just has a higher carrying capacity

Which allowed farmers to win the numbers game

Thus spreading throughout Europe

Not really

It's also really low risk

Hunter gatherers had sophisticated stone tools etc.

No real chances of being hurt by prey or tripping over a root

Just the high risk of suicide as you realize you've unwittingly turned yourself into a caloric intake cog in the great machine of liberalism

And that by comfortably farming turnips you've consigned untold billions to hell on earth