[Retric]

> > people tossing specific seeds on the ground 20,000 years ago

> This seems irrelevant to whether farming occurred before people.

It gets to if for example squirrels storing seeds underground is possibly farming or not. It's an intentional activity, but takes too long for a specific squirrel to see much benefit from it. IMO, it’s kind of a mind bender when you really dig into it.

I think a reassemble argument is squirrels as a species farm though individuals don’t.

[whimsicalism]

And I am to assume that these animals also do no form of weed killing?

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/32461-fungusfarming-ants...

[Retric]

Squirrels don’t.

As to ants, do you think they evolved that trait before or after they started farming.