What were the origins of farming?

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Humans lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of our species' existence. But around 10 to 12 thousand years ago we start to see evidence of farming tools and crops in the archaeological record. Prof Robin Allaby at the University of Warwick tells CrowdScience’s Anand Jagatia how ancient crop genomes are revealing an inevitable crawl of plants into domestication in farmers’ fields. (Image: A farm worker examining wheat crops field. Credit: Getty Images)