“Not to OUR ancestors... OUR ancestors had the mutation that kept it from working ;)”
Not necessarily.
There were probably lots of orphans, who are our ancestors, left behind who managed to muttate, while their parents and grandparents, also our ancestors, bought the farm.
Except that there weren’t any farms back then.
Gosh I hate it when a single posts causes me to slow down from wreaking havoc all over Free Republic.
I had to read your here at least 4 times in order to "get' what you are saying.
There were plenty of farms back then. They just were not being managed well.
The Hunter Gatherers had no chance against the farmers, because they simply could not maintain their own support system while always being "on the road" so to speak.
The farms were few and far between for a while, but as we all know, they were more efficient, and more importantly something did not come from nothing!
Now you can read my post a few times in order to figure out just what I am saying.