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Bringing a plant or animal under human control, later reversed in the wheat example to show humans becoming controlled by the crop.
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Domestication
Bringing a plant or animal under human control, later reversed in the wheat example to show humans becoming controlled by the crop.
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Using Harari's formulation, Jiang says humans thought they domesticated wheat, but wheat in effect domesticated humans by making them do the labor of its survival.
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"...food that we could control. Okay, the word we use is domestication Okay, domestication just means that we bring it under our control and..."
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"is it was actually pretty stupid To transition from hunter -gatherer into farming Okay for a variety of reasons the first reason is that..."
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"this out in nature if You're wheat and you want to survive you have to make yourself attractive to other people and to animals..."
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"...They ate vegetables, okay? So the third big innovation is the domestication of the horse. The reason why is the grassland is huge and..."
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"...we clear okay all right now what's really interesting is the domestication of the horse okay so again there's a"
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"...were able to accomplish it um the further evidence for the domestication of a horse is we've been able to dig up skeletons okay..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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