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The problem with wheat

The Food Chain

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The World's First Farmers

There's evidence from 11 thousand years ago that in a fertile region in the eastern mediterranean known as the levant, people began to settle down and bring seeds. As the nutrients in the land got used up and climate changed, these early farmers and their wheat began to spread. Why did we cling on to wheat and take it with us everywhere we went? What was its appeal?

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