The Neolithic Revolution looks like a human triumph until you ask who actually won. Wheat converted mobile foragers into sedentary laborers, manipulated humans into clearing land and weeding competitors, and reshaped human spines and knees through evolutionary pressure. Billions of copies of wheat DNA now exist; from an evolutionary standpoint, wheat is the survivor, and humans are just its dispersal mechanism.
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