Central questions in the domestication of plants and animals

By M. Zeder. 2006

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Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact (2008, background): “Estimating exactly when during this extended coevolutionary process a plant or animal species crossed the domestic threshold is now more a semantic issue than a substantive research question (20, 93).”
Origin and domestication of native Amazonian crops. (2010, background): “The same information permits inferences about the domestication process [10-12] and can even be used to estimate the approximate age of the founder events, although this has yet to be attempted with an Amazonian crop.”
SEED DISPERSAL AND CROP DOMESTICATION: SHATTERING, GERMINATION AND SEASONALITY IN EVOLUTION UNDER CULTIVATION (2009, background): “Anthropologists and botanists alike have argued about how precisely to demarcate ‘domestication’ from non-domesticated wild species (e.g. Higgs and Jarman, 1969, 1972; Harris, 1996, 2008; Zeder, 2006).”
Ancient plant DNA in archaeobotany (2008, background): “Understanding the process of domestication is still an important issue in archaeology (e.g. Zeder 2006; Zeder et al. 2006).”