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The Origins of Agriculture

Recent research shows there have been at least 25 different places in the world where people domesticated plants that were on their doorstep or in their yard just outside. Sugar cane comes from New Guinea, not a place where you would normally expect farming, but that's where it was domesticated. sunflowers for Eastern North America, for a while people thought there were no crops domesticated in Eastern North America and it all came from further south.

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