it appears things were already "off-track" long before the Neolithic farmers came along
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/earliest-evidence-insect-agriculture-03977.html
Paleontologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Insect Agriculture
An international team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest known examples of ‘fungus gardens’ within 25 million-year-old fossilized termite nests from southwestern Tanzania. The results were published this week in the journal PLoS ONE.
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