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  2. Carrot - Wikipedia

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    A well-known dish is carrots julienne. [58] Together with onion and celery, carrots are one of the primary vegetables used in a mirepoix to make broths. [59] The greens are edible as a leaf vegetable, [60] [61] but are rarely eaten by humans; [62] some sources suggest that the greens contain toxic alkaloids.

  3. History of plant breeding - Wikipedia

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    Domestication of plants is an artificial selection process conducted by humans to produce plants that have more desirable traits than wild plants, and which renders them dependent on artificial usually enhanced environments for their continued existence. The practice is estimated to date back 9,000–11,000 years.

  4. History of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Domestic pigs had multiple centres of origin in Eurasia, including Europe, East Asia and Southwest Asia, [36] where wild boar were first domesticated about 10,500 years ago. [37] Sheep were domesticated in Mesopotamia between 11,000 BC and 9000 BC. [38] Cattle were domesticated from the wild aurochs in the areas of modern Turkey and India ...

  5. Founder crops - Wikipedia

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    Wild flax fibres were used by humans as early as 30,000 years ago, at Dzudzuana cave in Georgia, [21] but genetic evidence indicates that domestic flax was initially selected for its oil. [ 22 ] [ 20 ] In Southwest Asia, the oldest known wild linseed comes from Tell Mureibit and is c. 11,800–11,300 years old ; thereafter, it is commonly found ...

  6. From the wild to the farm: the domestication of animals ... - AOL

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    Well, humans decided to tame some of them as pets and others for more appetizing reasons many years ago. SEE ALSO: Meet the happiest animal on Earth 14-30,000 BC: Dogs

  7. List of food origins - Wikipedia

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    Water fowl were captured on moonless nights using strategic flares. The managed grasslands not only provided game habitat, but vegetable sprouts, roots, bulbs, berries, and nuts were foraged from them as well as found wild. The most important were probably bracken and camas, and wapato especially for the Duwamish. Many, many varieties of ...

  8. How did a carrot logo become shorthand for the future of ...

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    Tyler, the Creator. In 2014, tensions started to bubble and egos began to clash. Chalk it up to creative differences, except the fact that it hurt more because these were Carrots’ close friends.

  9. Human history - Wikipedia

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    Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers . They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.