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- ecos
- 조회수400
- 2026-03-03
오는 3월 4일 (수)에 예정된 이번 학기의 첫 수요세미나 일정을 안내드립니다.
- 일시 및 장소: 2025년 3월 4일 (수) 12:00 - 13:00, 다산경제관 32210호
- 발표자: Professor Motohiro Kumagai (Australian National University)
- 논문 제목: Overkill, Extinction, and the Neolithic Revolution
- 초록: This research explores the biogeographical and economic origins of agriculture. Extinctions of large herbivores with vulnerable biological traits reduced hunting resources, creating economic incentives for farming. I construct a novel measure of resource loss from extinction and test the hypothesis using high-resolution grid-cell panel data with ancient climate, cell, and time fixed effects. Results show that extinction drove both the independent emergence and spread of farming across the globe, robust to an instrumental variable strategy exploiting extinction-prone traits. The effect is strongest in regions with high land productivity for agriculture, highlighting economic incentives as a driver of the transition.
