Title: Evolution of wheat Author: Alan Platner

The Domestication of Wheat
Ten thousand years ago as the gigantic glaciers of the last ice age (Pleistocene Epoch) receded, the Earth's atmosphere warmed and stabilized (World Book 6). Human beings discovered that with this new atmosphere animals and plants were available year around in a singular location and they no longer had to travel great distances to acquire needed foods. This was the birth of civilizations and thus agriculture (Kolbert 31). Around the same time many plants, some old and some new, started to sprout up around the world. One of these plants was Einkorn.
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