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For roughly 290,000 years, every single human on Earth lived as a hunter-gatherer. Then, within the space of a few thousand years an eye blink on that timescale multiple, disconnected populations on different continents independently started doing something that had never occurred to any human before: deliberately planting seeds and penning animals. This episode isn’t about how farming worked. It’s about the mystery of why now, and why everywhere at once
History of us
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A historical podcast that spans the length of the human narrative. Journey from West to East and across millennia to discover how fragile bands of hunter-gatherers became a global civilization.