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For the first hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, people were nomads who lived under the stars, gathered food, and hunted animals.

Subsequently, the discovery of agriculture led to the most crucial decision our species has ever made, our ancestors were able to settle down and grow their own food, that required sacrifices to achieve rewards that they did not obtain until much later.

-For the first time we think about the future-

City dwellers subsisted mostly thankfully on a few crops, and when there was no rain or a fungus affected the grain, famine broke out on a massive scale. Could agriculture become a science with a reliable predictive theory? One that could consistently produce varieties capable of withstanding drought and disease?

Farmers and herders knew the advantages of preferentially selecting the hardest specimens to cross and generating hybrids that were more successful, this is called artificial selection.

The development of arable plants, the domestication process.