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Web exclusive: What did our Neolithic ancestors ever do for us

Ivan Day explains that we've inherited most of our ingredients from our ancestors. Things like wheat, cassava, rice and potatoes were all discovered in the neolithic period and we couldn't do without them now but the people in the past are the ones who found them; there's hardly anything new now.

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