According to Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari, we didn't domesticate wheat. Wheat domesticated us. The first crop was wheat, and the first people to decide to give up their nomadic lifestyle in lieu of predictable weather, favorable location, and a lot less schlepping were rewarded with many children. By the time they got around to checking in with the Jones's to see how things were going with the hunting and gathering, it was too late to join in the fun, because their families were too big to tag along. The agricultural revolution.
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