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I've read that the early agricultural societies were considerably worse off hunter-gatherer ones, doing more strenuous work in worse conditions and ending up malnourished and in worse health. If that's true, how on Earth did it become the dominant mode?

by /u/pakled_guy in /r/AskHistorians

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