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brugidou on Aug 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Sad Bastard Cookbook

Farming is about 10,000 years old so I would say more like 500 generations?

b112 on Aug 6, 2023 [–]

That's modern farming. Keeping animals away from plants, and herding animals is older.

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