Who Domesticated Who?

Researchers are working to learn more about the history of agriculture and how humans and our preferred crops coevolved.

The domestication of plants and animals is said to have taken place around 10,000 years ago. With this, a new era of humanity was inaugurated, enabling the development of civilization and our contemporary society as well as the eventual explosion of our population.

Some prominent scholars contend that certain plants domesticated humans. Yuval Noah Harari…