How is farming an auto-catalytic process? How does this account for the great disparities in societies, as well as for the possiblilities of paral.......

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autocatalytic process is a term borrowed from chemistry to describe a type of chemical reaction
the products of which include components for the same chemical reaction. This type of chemical
reaction is self sustaining, and does not need regular addition of external catalysts.

There are two main autocatalytic aspects of farming. The first is a literal one. When
a farmer grows plants, the plants produce seeds that can be collected to produce more plants.
Similarly, domesticated animals reproduce, producing more animals. This makes parallel evolution
possible because once a society starts domesticating...