> The main feature which made farmers successful is not their
> health or their environmental abilities, but that farming allowed higher
> concentrations of people, not necessarily more people, but more people in
> the one spot for longer.
>
> In otherwords the advantage was military.
>
Entirely correct. So even if agriculture was a comparatively dumb idea
(more hours devoted to gaining food, for what may have been in fact a
net loss of nutritional value per individual; production of surplus and
the advent of class society), we end up stuck with it just because the
farmers outfought the hunters from weight of numbers.
Eric Leher