From ScienceDaily:
Until now, researchers believed farming was ‘invented’ some 12,000 years ago in an area that was home to some of the earliest known human civilizations. A new discovery offers the first evidence that trial plant cultivation began far earlier — some 23,000 years ago.
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“While full-scale agriculture did not develop until much later, our study shows that trial cultivation began far earlier than previously believed, and gives us reason to rethink our ancestors’ capabilities,” said Prof. Sternberg. “Those early ancestors were more clever and more skilled than we knew.”
And we didn’t “knew” this because … Can we just complete the thought here? Because Darwin’s boys said … ?
See also: Why Darwin’s boys are of no use whatever in understanding human evolution
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