Many of today's major food crops are distributed worldwide. While much of this 'food
globalisation'has resulted from modern trade networks, it has its roots in prehistory. In this …

The innovations of agricultural production and their extensive dispersal promoted the
transformation of human livelihoods and profoundly influenced the evolution of human-land …

Deep knowledge of crop biodiversity is essential to improving global food security. Despite
bread wheat serving as a keystone crop worldwide, the population history of bread wheat …

Introgression is a potential source of beneficial genetic diversity. The contribution of
introgression to adaptive evolution and improvement of wheat as it was disseminated …

A warming climate may increase flood hazard through boosting the global hydrological
cycle. However, human impact through modifications to the river and its catchment is not …

Wheat and barley evolved from large-seeded annual grasses in the arid, low latitudes of
Asia; their spread into higher elevations and northern latitudes involved corresponding …

Tibetan barley (Hordeum vulgare L., qingke) is the principal cereal cultivated on the Tibetan
Plateau for at least 3,500 years, but its origin and domestication remain unclear. Here …

Exploring prehistoric variation in human–environmental interaction is critical for
understanding the historical patterns and mechanisms of long-term human–land evolution …

The natural environment provides material essentials for human survival and development.
The characteristics, processes, regional differentiation and forcing mechanisms of the …

Although broomcorn and foxtail millet are among the earliest staple crop domesticates, their
spread and impacts on demography remain controversial, mainly because of the use of …