Cicero once said that to be ignorant of what has come before was to remain a child, and our world today we face many challenges as documentaries like Mission Blue and Racing Extinction illustrate: climate change, ocean acidification, mass extinction and the like which points towards a grim Malthusian outcome. However these documentaries always hold out hope that it can change with adaptations made to prevent this outcome, and as can be seen with the meeting of world powers in Paris there is an effort to make those changes. Yet without a full understanding of the process behind these effects, the driving cause cannot be addressed. To understand the origin of agriculture is to find those factors which led to that adaptation and the forming of our modern world system. To achieve a unified theory for the origin of agriculture differing theories need to be considered. For th...