It is difficult to overstate the cultural and biological impacts that the domestication of plants
and animals has had on our species. Fundamental questions regarding where, when, and …

A combination of genetics and archaeology is revealing the complexity of the relationships
between crop plants and their wild ancestors. Archaeobotanical studies are showing that …

The origins of agriculture in the Near East has been associated with a ‘core area’, located in
south-eastern Turkey, in which all major crops were brought into domestication within the …

Recent increases in archaeobotanical evidence offer insights into the processes of plant
domestication and agricultural origins, which evolved in parallel in several world regions. Many …

Until recently, domestication has been interpreted as a rapid process with little predomestication
cultivation and a relatively rapid rise of the domestication syndrome. This interpretation …

This paper debates claims that plant domestication occurred rapidly in a single restricted
sub-section of the Near Eastern Fertile Crescent. Instead we argue for numerous parallel …

The origins of agriculture involved pathways of domestication in which human behaviours
and plant genetic adaptations were entangled. These changes resulted in consequences that …

Domesticated maize evolved from wild teosinte under human influences in Mexico beginning
around 9000 years before the present (yr BP), traversed Central America by ~7500 yr BP, …

A phylogenetic analysis was conducted on 34 alleles of 2.5 kb sized stearoyl-ACP desaturase
II (sad2), obtained from 30 accessions of cultivated and pale flax (Linum spp.), to elucidate …

The persistence of DNA over archaeological and paleontological timescales in diverse
environments has led to a revolutionary body of paleogenomic research, yet the dynamics of …