Hunter-gatherers didn’t learn farming themselves, or from their immediate neighbors, but rather from distant people moving into their territory—a pattern that may have played out throughout this part of the globe.
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Poor diet is not just about individual choice, but about the systems that make eating poorly the default for most Americans.
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