Why did we progress beyond being hunters and gatherers?

Did humans settle there initially as sedentary hunter gatherers rather than agriculturalists, before making the transition to agriculture? .... crescent and the Amazon basin, where we have evidence of a high population beyond the environment's carrying capacity prior to the first Neolithic settlements there. read more

Hunting and gathering culture, also called foraging culture, any group of people that depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunters and gatherers. read more