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| | AGRICULTURE: |
 | | Plant and animal domestication was prerequisite to the growth of large, dense, sedentary human populations, in which the food-producing activities of part of the population yielded storable food surpluses to feed non-food-producing parts of the population. |
 | | Commenting on the new research, Hole said in an interview that "the location of domestication can't be determined by the present distribution of the wild plants." For example, einkorn does not grow wild today around Abu Hureyra, though excavations show that it must have more than 10,000 years ago. |
 | | Such circumstances based on geographic location have often been critical in the timing and pace of cultural and economic development for diverse societies, as Diamond argued in "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," published earlier this year by W.W. Norton. |
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