One person to show that it is possible to co-operate with animals, and train them to follow you around for food; and the rest of people to not murder him for his tasty friends.
Once you have some agriculture; you can have more—spread out into other species of animal and plant—then you settle down. Once you have monoculture you need some kind of trading system between farming groups. When someone gets wise about bartering or inventing a representative currency you start to get civilisation… Or when someone “offers” to pick up a sword so others can keep farming...
One person to show that it is possible to co-operate with animals, and train them to follow you around for food; and the rest of people to not murder him for his tasty friends.
Once you have some agriculture; you can have more—spread out into other species of animal and plant—then you settle down. Once you have monoculture you need some kind of trading system between farming groups. When someone gets wise about bartering or inventing a representative currency you start to get civilisation… Or when someone “offers” to pick up a sword so others can keep farming...