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SYSK Choice: Improving Your Digital Body Language & How Food Affected Human Evolution

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The Evolution of Food

Everything we eat that's farmed has been cultivated and bred by artificial selection long before anybody knew what genetics was. So wheat and pigs and sheep and cattle were all domesticated from wild species starting around 11,000 years ago. And so the things that we see in fields or on the supermarket shelf or indeed in our plates are the products of nature transformed by human ingenuity. They also, of course, have moved all over the world. I can go into my supermarket by corn, which originates from Mexico, chillies from the same place, potatoes from Peru. You in North America can go and buy wheat and wheat bread and that actually originates from Anatolia and Turkey. So it

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