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 …

Plant domestication is an outstanding example of plant–animal co-evolution and is a far
richer model for studying evolution than is generally appreciated. There have been …

The domestication of plants and animals is a key transition in human history, and its
profound and continuing impacts are the focus of a broad range of transdisciplinary research …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

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

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important cereal grains in the world today and serves
as a staple food source for more than half of the world's population. Research into when …

Background Archaeobotany, the study of plant remains from sites of ancient human activity,
provides data for studying the initial evolution of domesticated plants. An important …

The process of rice domestication occurred in the Lower Yangtze region of Zhejiang, China,
between 6900 and 6600 years ago. Archaeobotanical evidence from the site of Tianluoshan …

Phytolith remains of rice (Oryza sativa L.) recovered from the Shangshan site in the Lower
Yangtze of China have previously been recognized as the earliest examples of rice …

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and
why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of …