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An Asian origin for a 10,000-year-old domesticated plant in the Americas.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Dec 2005
Erickson David L, Smith Bruce D, Clarke Andrew C, Sandweiss Daniel H, Tuross Noreen
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New genetic and archaeological approaches have substantially improved our understanding of the transition to agriculture, a major turning point in human history that began 10,000-5,000 years ago with the independent domestication of plants and animals in eight world regions. In the Americas, however, understanding the initial domestication of New World species has long been complicated by the early presence of an...
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