#plantdomestication — Public Fediverse posts
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New PNAS study: those “domestic-sized” barley grains from 11,000-year-old Jordan sites weren’t bred bigger. They just grew where it was wetter. Genetic selection came later than we thought. #Archaeobotany #Neolithic #PlantDomestication https://www.anthropology.net/p/rain-not-selection-what-actually
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New climate models show wild wheat and barley were less widespread 12,000 years ago than today—and got scarcer as the climate warmed. #Archaeology #NeolithicRevolution #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-climate-got-better-the-plants