It was argued that once hunter-gatherers had occupied the whole world, the population started to grow everywhere and food became scarce; agriculture would have been a solution to this problem.

有人认为，一旦狩猎采集者占领了整个世界，世界各地的人口就会开始增长，食物将变得稀缺；农业本来是解决这一问题的方法。