For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors survived on wild plants and animals. They were hunter-gatherers, highly conversant with nature's gifts, accepting the world as it came. And then a revolution happened that forever changed the relationship between humans and other species: people began to domesticate them... The famous British anthropologist and popularizer of science Alice Roberts introduces modern scientific theories of the interaction between human evolution and the evolution of plants and animals. This book is a sweeping narrative, spanning thousands of years of history and informed by the latest research in genetics, archeology and anthropology, and at the same time, an incisive personal perspective that can change the way we see ourselves and those we influence. a powerful evolutionary factor on a planetary scale; it can create new landscapes, change climates, interact with other species through co-evolution, and contribute to the global spread of these “privileged” plants and animals... By delving into the history of our allies, we were able to shed light on our own origins.” (Alice Roberts)