A few years ago, anthropologists discovered figs buried in the ruins of an 11,400-year-old house near the ancient city of Jericho. This suggests that cultivated crops came centuries before the first farmers planted cereal grains because this particular fig tree isn't pollinated by insects and won't reproduce unless someone takes a cutting and plants it. If that isn't an argument for the earth to keep humans around, I don't know what is. Read (or listen to) the brief NPR article here.
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