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World Service,22 May 2002,23 mins

First Technology - crops

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How the Neolithic revolution changed the course of mankind's future. Just over 15,000 years ago humans were a sparse population of hunter-gatherers. The the Neolithic revolution, which brought with it the advent of agriculture changed everything. Subsequently the global population rising from 10 million to 6 billion over 500 generations.

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