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... domestication . Thus a key difference between wild and domesticated varieties of wheat , barley , and other cereals is that wild grains break off upon ripening and fall to the ground on their own , whereas domesticated grains remain ...
... domestication . Thus a key difference between wild and domesticated varieties of wheat , barley , and other cereals is that wild grains break off upon ripening and fall to the ground on their own , whereas domesticated grains remain ...
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... domestication of sheep and goats or the domestication of wheat and barley ? No definite answer can or should be given . The animal and plant domesticants and the people who depended on them were part of a single ecosystem . As the human ...
... domestication of sheep and goats or the domestication of wheat and barley ? No definite answer can or should be given . The animal and plant domesticants and the people who depended on them were part of a single ecosystem . As the human ...
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... domesticate these important plants without help from the Old World . This view persisted until quite recently largely because of the apparent chronological priority of plant domestication in the Middle East and East and Southeast Asia ...
... domesticate these important plants without help from the Old World . This view persisted until quite recently largely because of the apparent chronological priority of plant domestication in the Middle East and East and Southeast Asia ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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