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My other example of how ancient peoples apparently used their ethnobiological knowledge to good effect comes from the Jordan Valley in the ninth millennium B.C., the period of the earliest crop cultivation there.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The other, related question is whether ancient hunter-gatherers and farmers similarly put their ethnobiological knowledge to good use in selecting wild plants to gather and eventually to cultivate.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond