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It is now a generally accepted fact that plant domestication and the invention of agriculture is a relatively recent event in the process of human advancement, compared with the period of one or two million years in which humans have existed as a species. During most of this period our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, whilst the “agricultural or neolithic revolution” took place only some ten thousand years ago (see Ucko and Dimbleby, 1969; Harris and Hillman, 1989; Harris, 1996; Harlan, 1992).
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Hawkes, J.G., Maxted, N., Ford-Lloyd, B.V. (2000). Evolution of plants under domestication. In: The Ex Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4136-9_2
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