> “Ultimately, we hypothesized that prey size had played a major part in human evolution: at the beginning the largest animals were hunted, and when these were gone humans went on to the next in size, and so on. Finally, when hunting was no longer energetically viable, humans began to domesticate animals and plants. That's how the agricultural revolution began."

I had never considered this angle before. I always thought humans started agriculture to deal with scaling and the development of cities, but the idea that it was actually a scarcity pressure from decreased size of huntable game is a really interesting alternative.