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4th Jan

The Origins of Agriculture

by Jared Diamond

Once upon a time, all the fruits, nuts, and berries our gathering ancestors ate were wild. Someone, at some time, had to come up with the bright idea of crops.

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    And sometimes, as in the case of llamas and quinoa and Incans, we just ate what the llamas made into crops. (My friends...
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