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Sep 2020
46m 45s

The First Farmers

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
About this episode

The domestication of plants and animals has remade the way that people feed themselves, organize their societies, and interact with the landscapes around them. But for most of the human past, this isn't how people subsisted. When, where, and how did people start farming? And most importantly, why?

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