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You are listening to crowd science on the BBC World Service. I'm Annan Jagatia and right now I'm sitting inside of this.

It's a combine harvester, a huge machine that can be driven through fields of crops like wheat or oats to harvest the precious seeds that are growing on their stems.

Now on crowd science we take your science questions and travel the world to find answers. We've explored the discovery

of fire, the spread of humans around the world, and we've tried to answer where our vegetables

come from. But today the reason why we're here

inside this huge machine is because of a question from listener Brian in Florida. My question, my interest is where people first started farming.

Somewhere along the line, someone farming.

Somewhere along the line, someone had the time and the interest to take a seed and put it in the ground and culture it.

So Annand, where did farming begin?

So like when the very first people kind of figured out

that they could start to, you know, put seeds into the ground

and things would grow and then they could harvest that.

Precisely.

I'm interested in what you would call rudimentary farming.

This would have started out as a small farm plot or a small plot of land that

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