How on earth did humans learn to bake? Readers replyThis is just a small component of my giant, endless questioning about how the hell humans ever worked out anything, survival-wise. You wouldn’t throw stuff out that had gone a bit weird and might discover that the fermented gloop tasted OK after you’d cooked it on a stone. leadballoonMore interesting still – how did nomadic hunter-gatherers learn to stay in one place long enough to grow a wheat to make bread? He writes in Sapiens that wheat domesticated humans, not the other way round.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2024 14:32 UTC