The Senegal River in Senegal during a flood; much of the floodplain that is inundated in this image will be planted with crops as the flood recedes. Most people will imagine a good river as a blue ...
Origins of Food on MSN
Agriculture’s origins: 8 plants that changed everything
Long before cities or empires, the domestication of just eight key plants laid the foundation for agriculture and human civilization. This video explores how these ancient crops revolutionized food ...
The Fertile Crescent (shaded) on a political map of the Near and South East. In blue are the the archaeological sites in Iran with genomes from the Neolithic period that are ancestral to modern-day ...
The beginning of agriculture is one of the most significant events in human history. The origin and spread of agriculture accelerated the development of human society and economy and fundamentally ...
A beetle bores a tree trunk to build a gallery in the wood in order to protect its lay. As it digs the tunnel, it spreads ambrosia fungal spores that will feed the larvae. When these bore another tree ...
The old, epic story of agriculture in North America had two heroes, long sung and much venerated. One was human ingenuity. The other was corn. That story went something like this. On this continent, ...
A beetle bores a tree trunk to build a gallery in the wood in order to protect its lay. As it digs the tunnel, it spreads ambrosia fungal spores that will feed the larvae. When these bore another tree ...
The advent of agriculture was a significant turning point in the history of modern humans, beyond which humans started living a sedentary life and formed a so-called 'civilization.' However, the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you’ve ever struggled to reduce your carb intake, ancient DNA might be to blame. It has long been known that humans carry multiple copies of a gene that allows us to begin breaking ...
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