Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. How did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous? Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometers of the globe’s surface, almost ten times the size of Britain. In areas such as the Great Plains of North America, where not a single wheat stalk grew 10,000 years ago, you can today walk for hundreds upon hundreds of kilometers without encountering any other plant.
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