Original: W.H. Barreveld wrote: "One could go as far as to say that, had the date palm not existed, the expansion of the human race into the hot and barren parts of the "old" world would have been much more restricted.
Simplified: Historian W.H. Barreveld wrote: "Had the date palm not existed, the expansion of the human race into the hot and barren parts of the "old" world would have been much more restricted.