a short prehistory of the carrot

There was a time on this earth, as everyone knows, when men and women lived for hundreds of years. And in those times, processes that in our own age take many generations to unfold, father begetting son becoming father begetting son, and so on and so forth, could instead be accomplished by one man alone, regardless of how many sons he had, or even daughters, and sometimes because of them. This story is about one such man, the man who invented the carrot, and why he did it.

The invention happened ...