<P> The Cenozoic is just as much the age of savannas, or the age of co-dependent flowering plants and insects . At 35 Ma, grasses evolved from among the angiosperms . About ten thousand years ago, humans in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East develop agriculture . Plant domestication begins with cultivation of Neolithic founder crops . This process of food production, coupled later with the domestication of animals caused a massive increase in human population that has continued to the present . In Jericho (modern Israel), there is a settlement with about 19,000 people . At the same time, Sahara is green with rivers, lakes, cattle, crocodiles and monsoons . At 8 ka, Common (Bread) wheat (Triticum aestivum) originates in southwest Asia due to hybridisation of emmer wheat with a goat - grass, Aegilops tauschii . At 6.5 ka, two rice species are domesticated: Asian rice, Oryza sativa, and African rice Oryza glaberrima . </P> <Ul> <Li> Development of rooted plants </Li> <Li> Flowering plants vs. Conifers </Li> <Li> Ferns and other primitive plants </Li> <Li> Borderline species such as coliform protists </Li> </Ul> <Li> Development of rooted plants </Li> <Li> Flowering plants vs. Conifers </Li>

What replaced gymnosperms as the dominant land plant