We saw the sustainability challenges facing hunter gatherer societies, and notably the rapid hunting to extinction of most megafauna worldwide. The next chapter of our story brings us to an innovation that would have a profound effect on the ability of people to feed themselves over the long run, without depleting their resources: agriculture, which came with the domestication of animals and plants.
Read Wild Thing on Aeon by Jacob Mikanowski, about the domestication of animals, and answer questions.
The domestication of wheat 12000 years ago in Turkey:
The domestication of Corn 9000 years ago in Mexico:
The geographic origins of the world's food crops:
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