John Morrissey
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A 6,000-Year-Old Fruit Fly Gave The World Modern Cheeses And Yogurts
Historians often trace the dawn of human civilisation back 10,000 years, when Neolithic tribes first settled and began farming in the Fertile Crescent, which stretches through much of what we now call the Middle East. Prehistoric peoples domesticated plants to create the cereal crops we still grow today, and in the Zagros mountains of Iran,…