My assumption is that most of my ancestors (if you set a reasonable cutoff in the past at the invention of farming, or written records) would be farmers because from ca. 10kya to only a few hundred years ago, most people were farmers by a huuuge margin.
The question very specifically asked for starting 300,000 years ago, not 10,000.
This seems very surprising/wrong to me given my understanding of the animalkingdom, where various different bands/families/social groups/whatever precursor to tribes you think of have ways to decrease inbreeding, but maybe you think human hunter-gatherers are quite different? I’d expect population bottlenecks to be the exception rather than the rule here across the history of our species.
I’d trust the theory + animal data somewhat more on this question than (e.g.) studies on current uncontacted peoples.
The question very specifically asked for starting 300,000 years ago, not 10,000.
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This seems very surprising/wrong to me given my understanding of the animal kingdom, where various different bands/families/social groups/whatever precursor to tribes you think of have ways to decrease inbreeding, but maybe you think human hunter-gatherers are quite different? I’d expect population bottlenecks to be the exception rather than the rule here across the history of our species.
I’d trust the theory + animal data somewhat more on this question than (e.g.) studies on current uncontacted peoples.