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Çatalhöyük and the Neolithic Revolution

You're Dead to Me

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Is It a Balanced Diet?

People were eating mostly of the domesticated crops, like wheat and barley. They would have processed into breads or porridges alongside roasting or baking their meat. Even though they were farmers, they did continue to forage wild plants like lentils and peas. Mike is a keen milk drinker, 37 pints a month, i think. So clearly a big fand of milk. But actually, youc have the neolithic to thank for this. This is where we get what's called lactes persistence. And it's a genetic mutation. It's just a sort of accident of biology. We think that because people domesticated cattle in the neolithic, that a secondary product

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