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Beginnings of Agriculture’s

Origins of agriculture, the active cultivation of useful plants or animals in human-created environments. Agriculture is frequently thought of in terms of specific combinations of activities and organisms—wet-rice production in Asia, wheat farming in Europe, cattle ranching in the Americas, and so on—but a more holistic view holds that humans are environmental engineers disrupt terrestrial habitats in specific ways. Anthropogenic disturbances, such as removing vegetation or tilling the soil, induce a range of localized changes, the most frequent of which are increasing the quantity of light reaching ground level and a decrease in competition among species. Consequently, a region may produce more of the plants and animals that humans want for food, technology, medicine, and other purposes. Some plants and animals have become domesticated or reliant on these and other human interventions for long-term propagation or survival throughout time. Domestication is a biological process in which organisms gain traits that improve their value due to human selection, such as when plants produce larger seeds, fruit, or tubers than their wild ancestors. Domesticated plants, also known as cultigens, originate from various families (groups of closely related genera that share a common ancestor; see genus). Because they contain traits that are particularly conducive to domestication, the grass (Poaceae), bean (Fabaceae), and nightshade or potato (Solanaceae) families have generated a disproportionately high number of cultigens. Domesticated animals evolved from friendly creatures in the wild, and that, like plants, may be bred to improve the qualities that are beneficial to humans. Most domesticated animals are calmer than their wild counterparts, and they frequently produce more meat, wool, or milk. They’ve been utilized for traction, transportation, pest control, aid, and companionship, as well as as a source of wealth.

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