farming and science and computers and rocket ships and everything else, none of which has any straightforward connection to tasks on the African savannah.
Farming does have a straightforward connection to techniques used by hunter-gatherers to gather plants more effectively. From page 66 of “Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States” by James C. Scott:
… hunters and gatherers, as we have seen, have long been sculpting the landscape: encouraging plants that will bear food and raw materials later, burning to create fodder and attract game, weeding natural stands of desirable grains and tubers. Except for the act of harrowing and sowing, they perform all the other operations for wild stands of cereals that farmers do for their crops.
Farming does have a straightforward connection to techniques used by hunter-gatherers to gather plants more effectively. From page 66 of “Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States” by James C. Scott: