Banana (Musa spp.) is one of the world's most important fruits. In 2011, 145 million metric
tons, worth an estimated $44 billion, were produced in over 130 countries. Fusarium wilt …

Bananas are one of the top ten world food crops. Unlike most other major food crops,
bananas are difficult to genetically improve. The challenge is that nearly all banana cultivars …

Original multidisciplinary research hereby clarifies the complex geodomestication pathways
that generated the vast range of banana cultivars (cvs). Genetic analyses identify the wild …

The advent of farming around 12 millennia ago was a cultural as well as technological
revolution, requiring a new system of property rights. Among mobile hunter–gatherers during …

What role did plant resources have in the evolution of the human species? Why and how
have plants been managed and transported to new environments? Where, how, and why …

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …

Recent multidisciplinary investigations document an independent emergence of agriculture
at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. In this paper we report preliminary …

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

For many years the author has been tracking the spread of the Neolithic of Island Southeast
Asia (ISEA) and its extension eastwards into the western Pacific, as a proxy for dating the …

Stéphen Rostain's book is a culmination of 25 years of research on the extensive human
modification of the wetlands environment of Guiana and how it reshapes our thinking of …