Foraging and farming as niche construction: stable and unstable adaptations

Rowley-Conwy, Peter; Layton, Robert

doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0307

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Foraging and farming as niche construction: stable and unstable adaptations

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Rowley-Conwy, Peter, Layton, Robert·2011·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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All forager (or hunter–gatherer) societies construct niches, many of them actively by the concentration of wild plants into useful stands, small-scale cultivation, burning of natural vegetation to encourage useful species, and various forms of hunting, collectively termed ‘low-level food production’. Many such niches are stable and can continue indefinitely, because forager populations are usually stable. Some are unstable, but these usually transform into other foraging niches, not geographically expansive farming niches. The Epipalaeolithic (final hunter–gatherer) niche in the Near East was complex but stable, with a relatively high population density, until destabilized by an abrupt climatic change. The niche was unintentionally transformed into an agricultural one, due to chance genetic and behavioural attributes of some wild plant and animal species. The agricultural niche could be exported with modifications over much of the Old World. This was driven by massive population increase and had huge impacts on local people, animals and plants wherever the farming niche was carried. Farming niches in some areas may temporarily come close to stability, but the history of the last 11 000 years does not suggest that agriculture is an effective strategy for achieving demographic and political stability in the world's farming populations.

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Authors: Rowley-Conwy, P., & Layton, R.
Affiliations: Durham University (GB)
Corresponding author: Rowley-Conwy, Peter
ORCID: Rowley-Conwy, Peter
Venue: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Publisher: The Royal Society
Published: 2011-03-27
Volume: 366
Issue: 1566
Pages: 849-862
ISSN: 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0307
PMC: PMC3048996
OpenAlex: W2084044860
Cited by: 224
References: 101
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 5
FWCI: 8.23
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ (tdm)
Locations: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
Keywords: niche construction, foraging, hunter-gatherers, transition to agriculture, Epipaleolithic, Near East, abrupt climate change, population density, population stability, political stability
MeSH terms: Agriculture, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Humans, Human Activities, Paleontology, Population Dynamics, Ecosystem

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