One of Aesop's fables is called the.
Ant and the Grasshopper.
As the story goes,
a hungry grasshopper comes up to a group of ants in the wintertime and asks them for.
Some food to eat.
They're shocked and ask him why he.
Hasn'T stored anything up before the weather got cold,
and he replies that he'd eaten well during the summer and made.
Music while the weather was warm.
The moral of the story is pretty save wall times are good.
But for most of human history, for 200,000 years,
humanity was much more like the grasshopper than the ants.
As hunter gatherers, we ate well when resources were plentiful,
but didn't really save for winter, making us susceptible to starvation and death.
But then something changed around the world.
Within a relatively short period of time,
a bunch of humans independently began farming and kept farming.
How did this happen?
My name is Jerusalem Dempsis.
I'm a staff writer here at the Atlantic.