Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment: Pushing plant-hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 150-157

  Allaby, Robin G ^a   Kistler, Logan ^b   Gutaker, Rafal M ^a   Ware, Roselyn ^a   Kitchen, James L ^c   Smith, Oliver ^a   Clarke, Andrew C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Domestication; Local adaptation

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DNA; DOMESTICATION; HOMINID; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PLIOCENE;

PLANT DNA;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HOMINID; HUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS;

EID: 84921792900     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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