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The limits of selection during maize domestication.
Nature - 18 Mar 1999
Wang R L, Stec A, Hey J, Lukens L, Doebley J
Abstract excerpt
The domestication of all major crop plants occurred during a brief period in human history about 10,000 years ago. During this time, ancient agriculturalists selected seed of preferred forms and culled out seed of undesirable types to produce each subsequent generation. Consequently, favoured all...
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