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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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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"...Okay, and so this is like this we did not domesticate wheat wheat Domesticated us. Okay, so we thought that we made wheat Okay,..."
"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..."
"...from uh Phrase which is where Athens gets most of its wheat okay so now Athens is going to starve so Athens surrenders and..."
"...farmers together and had coffee, and they all had coffee, or wheat, or whatever, and then we can sell this to other countries?"
"...of these very nutritious foods, and they're far more nutritious than wheat, you have a population explosion in Europe. Okay? So this is very..."
"...Cain is a farmer so he offers I don't know like wheat or vegetables to God. God tastes both. And then God's like this..."
"...for me, I promise to give two people two bushels of wheat, okay? And so, when you have this, you can then give it..."
"...we're all farmers, right? And, maybe you have, 100 bushels of wheat, maybe 20 bushels of corn. Okay?"
"...two people, this family of two, will get two bushes of wheat from one tree, and two baskets of bread for their work today...."
"...a farmer you're eating only what you grow which is mainly wheat and some vegetables Okay, so you're not getting that much nutrition then..."
"...we're able to dig up seeds of crops, okay? Vegetables and wheat and barley, which meant that they had the capacity, the technology to..."
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