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Leilani Lucas
Researcher at College of Southern Nevada
Publications - 20
Citations - 1505
Leilani Lucas is an academic researcher from College of Southern Nevada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Domestication & Paleoethnobotany. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 20 publications receiving 1170 citations. Previous affiliations of Leilani Lucas include University College London & UCL Institute of Archaeology.
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Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
Greger Larson,Dolores R. Piperno,Robin G. Allaby,Michael D. Purugganan,Leif Andersson,Leif Andersson,Manuel Arroyo-Kalin,Loukas Barton,Cynthia C. Vigueira,Tim Denham,Keith Dobney,Andrew N. Doust,Paul Gepts,M. Thomas P. Gilbert,Kristen J. Gremillion,Leilani Lucas,Lewis Lukens,Fiona Marshall,Kenneth M. Olsen,J. Chris Pires,Peter J. Richerson,Rafael Rubio de Casas,Oris I. Sanjur,Mark G. Thomas,Dorian Q. Fuller +24 more
TL;DR: It is argued that although recent progress has been impressive, the next decade will yield even more substantial insights not only into how domestication took place, but also when and where it did, and where and why it did not.
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Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record
Dorian Q. Fuller,Tim Denham,Manuel Arroyo-Kalin,Leilani Lucas,Chris J. Stevens,Ling Qin,Robin G. Allaby,Michael D. Purugganan,Michael D. Purugganan +8 more
TL;DR: A unique synthesis of evidence is provided, including quantitative evidence on the trajectory and rate of domestication in seed crops and patterns in the development of tropical vegetatively propagated crops, for the New World and Old World tropics.
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Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age.
TL;DR: Evidence for the selective long-distance transport of crops as an alternative to demic-diffusion of farmers with a defined crop package is explored to highlight the first steps towards food globalization.
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Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion
Alison Crowther,Leilani Lucas,Richard F. Helm,Mark Horton,Ceri Shipton,Henry T. Wright,Sarah Walshaw,Matthew Pawlowicz,Chantal Radimilahy,Katerina Douka,Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert,Dorian Q. Fuller,Nicole Boivin +12 more
TL;DR: New archaeobotanical data are presented that show that Southeast Asian settlers brought Asian crops with them when they settled in Africa, providing the first, to the authors' knowledge, reliable archaeological window into the Southeast Asian colonization of Madagascar.
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Geographic mosaics and changing rates of cereal domestication.
TL;DR: Quantitative data allow us to estimate the changing selection coefficients for the evolution of non-shattering (domestic-type seed dispersal) in Asian rice, barley, emmer wheat and einkorn wheat, and indicate that selection coefficients tended to be low, but also that there were inflection points at which selection increased considerably.