Anthropology.netFeb 13
New climate models show wild wheat and barley were less widespread 12,000 years ago than today—and got scarcer as the climate warmed. #Archaeology #NeolithicRevolution #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-climate-got-better-the-plants
When the Climate Got Better, the Plants Disappeared

Machine learning reveals that the ancestors of wheat and barley were less common after the Ice Age ended, not more.

Anthropology.net
GQE-Le MoulonFeb 20, 2025

A specialist in the #genomics of crop #PlantDomestication and adaptation, Maud Tenaillon has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE).

More information : https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/news/2025/02/maud-tenaillon-editor-in-chief-of-the-journal-genome-biology-and-evolution-from-january-2025/

#maudtenaillon @GenomeBiolEvol @officialSMBE @cnrs @cnrsbiologie #ideev

Maud Tenaillon, editor in chief of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, from January 2025

A specialist in the genomics of crop plant domestication and adaptation, Maud Tenaillon has been elected Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE).

GQE - Le Moulon
DoomsdaysCWJul 22, 2023

#Archaeology: Did #Plants #Domesticate Humans? Watch 'The First Entanglement' [video]

By Regina Sobel on January 26, 2023

"Those who study places like #Çatalhöyük see a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics. Ceren Kabukçu, an archaeobotanist who researches ancient plant specimens, explains how a random mutation in wild wheat produced characteristics that pleased early farmers so much that they selected those plants over and over again until the mutated plants became domesticated. But it didn’t end there. The domesticated wheat evolved to such a degree that it could no longer reproduce without the aid of human hands. Much of what we eat today is rooted in this codependency."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/did-plants-domesticate-humans-watch-the-first-entanglement/

#Farming #PlantDomestication #Archaeobotany #Archaeology #Histodon #History #Catalhoyuk #FoodHistory

Did Plants Domesticate Humans? Watch 'The First Entanglement'

Archaeologists studying one of the birthplaces of agriculture find a complex interplay between human actions and the workings of nature and genetics.

Scientific American
NIOO-KNAWJul 21, 2023
New NIOO publication: Integrating chemical plant trait- and ecological-based approaches to better understand differences in #insect #herbivory between #cultivated and #natural systems. #communityecology #plantdomestication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108643#spatialecology
grateful wolfJan 16, 2023
Domestication as innovation: the entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops - Dorian Fuller [pdf 17 pages] https://www.academia.edu/242602/Domestication_as_innovation_the_entanglement_of_techniques_technology_and_chance_in_the_domestication_of_cereal_crops #ArchaeoBotany #PlantDomestication #agriculture
Domestication as innovation: the entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops

The origins of agriculture involved pathways of domestication in which human behaviours and plant genetic adaptations were entangled. These changes resulted in consequences that were unintended at the start of the process. This paper highlights some