Foraging and farming as niche construction: Stable and unstable adaptations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1566, 2011, Pages 849-862

  Rowley Conwy, Peter ^a   Layton, Robert ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Farmer; Forager; Hunter gatherer; Low level food production; Niche construction; Origins of agriculture

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; BIOMASS BURNING; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CULTIVATION; FARMING SYSTEM; FOOD PRODUCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUNTER-GATHERER; HUNTING; NICHE; PALEOLITHIC; PLANT COMMUNITY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AGRICULTURE; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79958286494     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0307     Document Type: Article

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