The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming

Weeds are currently present in a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. Although the beginning of their evolution is largely unknown, researchers assumed that they developed in tandem with cultivation since the appearance of agricultural habitats some 12,000 years ago. These rapidly-evolving plants inv...

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Main Authors: Snir, Ainit, Nadel, Dani, Groman-Yaroslavski, Iris, Melamed, Yoel, Sternberg, Marcelo, Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Weiss, Ehud
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511808/