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Variation under domestication in plants: 1859 and today.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Aug 2010
Brown Anthony H D
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Charles Darwin began The Origin of Species with a chapter entitled variation under domestication, which encapsulated decades of his research on a diverse array of animal and plant domesticated species. Variation in these species compared with that in their wild relatives, their origins and their selection by humans, formed a paradigm for his theory of the evolutionary origin of species by means of natural...
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