Soru

Passage A
The transition from foraging to agriculture, often termed the Neolithic Revolution, was fundamentally a demographic necessity. As early hunter-gatherer populations steadily expanded, they inevitably outgrew the carrying capacity of their local environments. When naturally occurring wild resources could no longer sustain these enlarged populations, groups were forced to innovate to avoid starvation. They began cultivating hardy cereal grains simply to secure a reliable caloric baseline. In this view, the adoption of agriculture was not a progressive leap forward, but rather a necessary adaptation of last resort, born out of demographic pressure and the urgent need to survive.

Passage B
The traditional assumption that early agriculture was a desperate response to overpopulation or resource scarcity is contradicted by archaeological evidence. The earliest signs of plant domestication actually appear in regions of relative ecological abundance, where wild resources were plentiful. In these prosperous environments, certain ambitious individuals—"aggrandizers"—sought to elevate their social status by hosting elaborate, competitive feasts. These communal feasts required a consistent surplus of highly valued, labor-intensive foods. Consequently, the initial cultivation of crops was driven not by a struggle for basic survival, but by a desire to amass surplus wealth for political leverage and social differentiation.

The authors of the two passages would be most likely to disagree over the truth of which one of the following statements?