Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East

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Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice Cultures (2011, background): “…to Fan Li (deceased), Zhang Chi and Qin Ling for hosting me at the excavations and allowing me to look at floats. appearance of domesticates appears to be a diffuse process across a wide region rather than focused on any one core region (Willcox 2005; Allaby et al. 2010; Fuller et al. 2011c, d).”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…increased the nutrients extractable from plant and animal foods, boosting food returns from limited land and potentially making small seeds and tubers worth exploiting at high levels for the first time, putting them on course to later domestication (Fuller et al. 2011, Wollstonecroft 2011).”
Discriminating wild vs domestic cereal harvesting micropolish through laser confocal microscopy (2014, background): “the genetic data, and the advocates of multi-focus models, who highlight the importance of the archaeo-botanical information (Fuller et al., 2011).”
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies (2014, background): “First, discovering the molecular basis of domestication traits is relatively easy and inexpensive in plants compared with animal populations because early animal selection likely focused on behavioral and other characteristics (such as tameness and altered reproduction), with complex genetic foundat”