The Agricultural Revolution a Mistake? Not If You Count Food Processing (2016)
The whole idea that Hunter-Gatherer was a superior lifestyle seems at odds with the fact that agriculture won.  Everywhere people had the choice between what they were doing before and agriculture they either chose agriculture or they died out.<p>At the very least it seems less dangerous to concentrate your food reserves in a small area that you can defend instead of having to forage into the territory of dangerous predators regularly.  Plus it reduces conflicts with neighbors when you can survive on a much smaller land area.  You also have a lot more control over how many calories you will be able to extract from the land and plan accordingly, unlike HG societies that go through feast and famine cycles depending on a large number of environmental factors.