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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “The earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles – 2 per cent of the planet’s surface.”
    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it.”
    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind



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