Hey squash, time for your close-up: Plants 'auditioned' before domestication
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 14:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Humans likely 'auditioned' plants and animals that they eventually domesticated by first managing wild populations during a long transition period - sometimes thousands of years - that led from hunting-gathering to farming lifestyles, a speaker at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) said Thursday (Feb. 18).