Early crop plants were more plastic and easily ‘tamed’: new perspectives on plant domestication are shown in a study published in PLoS ONE
Genetic intermixing in Indonesia contributed to cultural “explosion” across the Pacific; a new study has been published on Nature Ecology and Evolution
This study offers a detailed glimpse into the diets and lives of ancient Mongolians, underscoring the importance of millets during the formation of the earliest empires on the steppe
New discoveries in the Altai Mountains show that agricultural crops dispersed across Eurasia more than five millennia ago, causing significant cultural change in human populations
A new study found that the genomics of yams supports West Africa (the Niger River Basin) as a major cradle of crop domestication
