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Plants were the first food of all humans; people lived where edible plants grew.

Primitive humans simply grazed on, or collected to eat later, plants growing close to where they lived.

It took thousands of years of human development before we began formally cultivating (farming) plants on any scale other than for our immediate family.

Evidence of grain cultivation has been found dating back over 13,000 years, but cultivation on a small scale would have been practiced right back near the beginning of human development. The scale of agriculture would have grown steadily until we reached the first traceable evidence of farming: grain cultivation.

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