The evidence suggests that the Indians at Dickson Underline the sentence where the author uses the Mounds, like many other primitive peoples, took up phrase “trade quality for quantity”. What does it mean farming not by choice but from necessity in order to feed to “trade quality for quantity”? their constantly growing numbers. "I don't think most hunter-gatherers farmed until they had to, and when Why do you the author choose to include information they switched to farming they traded quality for about the people of the Dickson Mounds? What quantity," says Mark Cohen of the State University of purpose does it serve in the text? New York at Plattsburgh, co-editor of one of the seminal books in the field, Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting lifestyle in human history. In contrast, we're still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it's unclear whether we can solve it…
The evidence suggests that the Indians at Dickson Mounds, like many other primitive peoples, took up farming not by choice but from necessity in order to feed their constantly growing numbers. "I don't think most hunter-gatherers farmed until they had to, and when they switched to farming they traded quality for quantity," says Mark Cohen of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, co-editor of one of the seminal books in the field, Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture. Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and longest-lasting lifestyle in human history. In contrast, we're still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it's unclear whether we can solve it… Underline the sentence where the author uses the phrase “trade quality for quantity”. What does it mean to “trade quality for quantity”? Why do you the author choose to include information about the people of the Dickson Mounds? What purpose does it serve in the text?
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