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For more than ten thousand years, human beings have sought to transform their environment to ensure that their basic food requirements are met. Through agriculture, societies have directed the evolutionary process of animals and crops.1 The criteria for selection of crop and animal varieties for agricultural purposes substantially changes the selection pressures to which these organisms are exposed. Few domesticated crops would survive in the absence of human husbandry or cultivation.2 They have been adapting to, and have been selected for their suitability in, agricultural systems which have changed over time in their rationale, geographical extent and location. Agricultural crops (and livestock) co-evolve with humans.3
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Hogg, D. (2000). Genetic Diversity in Agriculture: Its Rise, Fall and Significance. In: Technological Change in Agriculture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981252_1
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