Anthropogenic seed dispersal: Rethinking the origins of plant domestication
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 12:10
in Biology & Nature
Over the past three millennia, selective breeding has dramatically widened the array of plant domestication traits. However, a close look at the archaeobotanical record illustrates a similar suite of linked traits emerging before humans began selectively breeding food crops. A researchers now summarizes all of these early evolutionary responses in plants, arguing that these shared traits evolved in response to human seed-dispersal services.