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The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics
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This paper reviews this body of evidence and assesses current views about how and why domestication and plant food production arose and it is becoming clear that the more interesting question may be the origins of plant cultivation rather than the origin of agriculture.Abstract:
The New World tropical forest is now considered to be an early and independent cradle of agriculture. As in other areas of the world, our understanding of this issue has been significantly advanced by a steady stream of archaeobotanical, paleoecological, and molecular/genetic data. Also importantly, a renewed focus on formulating testable theories and explanations for the transition from foraging to food production has led to applications from subdisciplines of ecology, economy, and evolution not previously applied to agricultural origins. Most recently, the integration of formerly separated disciplines, such as developmental and evolutionary biology, is causing reconsiderations of how novel phenotypes, including domesticated species, originate and the influence of artificial selection on the domestication process. It is becoming clear that the more interesting question may be the origins of plant cultivation rather than the origins of agriculture. This paper reviews this body of evidence and assesses cur...read more
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Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. In: Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Editor, Oxford University Press (2003) Pp. xi+794. Price $50.00 paper.
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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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Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Carolina Levis,Flávia R. C. Costa,Frans Bongers,Marielos Peña-Claros,Charles R. Clement,André Braga Junqueira,Eduardo Góes Neves,Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha,Fernando O. G. Figueiredo,Rafael de Paiva Salomão,Carolina V. Castilho,William E. Magnusson,Oliver L. Phillips,Juan Ernesto Guevara,Daniel Sabatier,Jean-François Molino,D. Cárdenas López,Abel Monteagudo Mendoza,Nigel C. A. Pitman,Alvaro Duque,P. Núñez Vargas,Charles E. Zartman,Rodolfo Vasquez,Ana Andrade,José Luís Camargo,Ted R. Feldpausch,Susan G. Laurance,William F. Laurance,Timothy J. Killeen,H. E. Mendonça Nascimento,Juan Carlos Montero,Bonifacio Mostacedo,Iêda Leão do Amaral,I. C. Guimarães Vieira,Roel J. W. Brienen,Hernán Castellanos,John Terborgh,M. de Jesus Veiga Carim,J. R. da Silva Guimarães,L. de Souza Coelho,F. D. de Almeida Matos,Florian Wittmann,Hugo Mogollón,Gabriel Damasco,Nállarett Dávila,Roosevelt García-Villacorta,Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado,Thaise Emilio,D. de Andrade Lima Filho,Juliana Schietti,Paolla Gabryelle Cavalcante de Souza,Natalia Targhetta,James A. Comiskey,Beatriz Schwantes Marimon,Ben-Hur Marimon,David A. Neill,Alfonso Alonso,Luzmila Arroyo,Fernanda Carvalho,F. C. de Souza,Francisco Dallmeier,M. P. Pansonato,Joost F. Duivenvoorden,Paul V. A. Fine,Pablo R. Stevenson,Alejandro Araujo-Murakami,Christopher Baraloto,D. D. do Amaral,Julien Engel,Terry W. Henkel,Paul J. M. Maas,Pascal Petronelli,J. D. Cardenas Revilla,Juliana Stropp,Doug Daly,Rogério Gribel,M. Ríos Paredes,Marcos Silveira,Raquel Thomas-Caesar,Timothy R. Baker,N. F. da Silva,Leandro Valle Ferreira,Carlos A. Peres,Miles R. Silman,Carlos Cerón,Fernando Cornejo Valverde,A. Di Fiore,E. M. Jimenez,M. C. Peñuela Mora,Marisol Toledo,Edelcilio Marques Barbosa,L. C. de Matos Bonates,Nicolás Castaño Arboleda,E. de Sousa Farias,Alfredo F. Fuentes,Jean-Louis Guillaumet,P. Møller Jørgensen,Yadvinder Malhi,I. P. de Andrade Miranda,Juan Fernando Phillips,Adriana Prieto,Agustín Rudas,Ademir Roberto Ruschel,Natalino Silva,P. von Hildebrand,Vincent A. Vos,Egleé L. Zent,Stanford Zent,Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra,Marcelo Trindade Nascimento,Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira,Hirma Ramírez-Angulo,José Ferreira Ramos,Gonzalo Rivas,Jochen Schöngart,Rodrigo Sierra,Milton Tirado,G. M. F. van der Heijden,Emilio Vilanova Torre,Ophelia Wang,Kenneth R. Young,Cláudia Baider,Ángela Cano,William Farfan-Rios,C. Ferreira,Bruce Hoffman,Casimiro Mendoza,Italo Mesones,Armando Torres-Lezama,Maria Natalia Umaña Medina,T. R. van Andel,Daniel Villarroel,Roderick Zagt,Miguel Alexiades,Henrik Balslev,Karina Garcia-Cabrera,T. Gonzales,Lionel Hernández,Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco,Angelo Gilberto Manzatto,William Milliken,Walter Palacios Cuenca,Susamar Pansini,Daniela Pauletto,Fredy R. Ramirez Arévalo,N. F. Costa Reis,A. F. Sampaio,L. E. Urrego Giraldo,E. H. Valderrama Sandoval,L. Valenzuela Gamarra,César I.A. Vela,H. ter Steege +151 more
TL;DR: Analysis of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data indicates that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.
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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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The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest.
Charles R. Clement,William M. Denevan,Michael J. Heckenberger,André Braga Junqueira,André Braga Junqueira,Eduardo Góes Neves,Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira,William I. Woods +7 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the Amazonian anthrome was no less socio-culturally diverse or populous than other tropical forested areas of the world prior to European conquest.
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