... How did this grass turn from insignificant to ubiquitous?  Wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage.  This ape has been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Within a couple of millenia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. 

 

... “We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.”

― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Flour

 

Water

 

Yeast

 

Salt  (optional)

Flour

<---- ground wheat!

 

Starches & Protein

 

Germ, Bran, Gluten 

Next day... (or this morning)

 

~480 - 500 degrees