The development of agriculture is often thought of as a human innovation in response to climate change or population pressure. A new manuscript challenges that concept, suggesting that plants that had already evolved adaptive traits for life among large-bodied grazing and browsing animals were more likely to prosper on a highly disturbed anthropogenic landscape.
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from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210325115411.htm
Ancient megafaunal mutualisms and extinctions as factors in plant domestication
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