On: 7k-year-old skeletons from the green Sahara reveal a mysterious human lineage

[dani__german]

it is one logical pathway, but another is to simply move to a new area, rather than develop animal husbandry. Which one seems more likely?

[HelloNurse → dani__german]

Both at the same time. If you repeatedly migrate in order to maintain a foraging and hunting lifestyle, you are sufficiently aware of the undependability of foraging and hunting to make large R&D investments in experimental methods of agriculture and animal husbandry.

[psunavy03 → dani__german]

Depends on how many science points and settlers you have, and where you are on the rest of the tech tree.