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from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence of Fur and Leather Clothing, Among World\u2019s Oldest, Found in Moroccan Cave<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Brian Handwerk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018In creating fields of identical wheat, we abandoned thousands of highly adapted and resilient varieties.\u2019\u00a0Photograph: uchar\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not just animals that are at risk of dying out, the world\u2019s crops are in rapid decline. Here\u2019s why it matters what is on your plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In eastern Turkey, in a golden field overshadowed by grey mountains, I reached out and touched an endangered species. Its ancestors had evolved over millions of years and migrated here long ago. It had been indispensable to life in the villages across this plateau, but its time was running out. \u201cJust a few fields left,\u201d the farmer said. \u201cExtinction will come easily.\u201d This endangered species wasn\u2019t a rare bird or an elusive wild animal, it was food, a type of wheat: a less familiar character in the extinction story now playing out around the world, but one we all need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To most of us, one field of wheat might look much like any other, but this crop was extraordinary. Kavilca (pronounced Kav-all-jah) had turned eastern Anatolian landscapes the colour of honey for 400 generations (about 10,000 years). It was one of the world\u2019s earliest cultivated foods, and is now one of the rarest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can a food be close to extinction and yet at the same time appear to be everywhere? The answer is that one type of wheat is different from another, and many varieties are at risk, including ones with important characteristics we need to combat crop diseases or climate change. Kavilca\u2019s rarity is emblematic of the mass extinction taking place in our food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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