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(7) Conclusion: From the foregoing it would be clear that climatic changes and the shifting of floral and faunal boundaries at the end of the Pleistocene do not seem to be related to the origin of agriculture in India. It was the environment and the exploitative technology, combined with adaptability, that was largely responsible for the transition from the food-gathering to the food-producing economy. Such a transition came at different periods in different parts of the world. Close man-animal and man-plant relationships may be expected to have appeared wherever such relationship conferred a selective advantage.