The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2022
Summary
During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543200 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262543206 |
| Author: | Ted R. Schultz, Richard Gawne |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology |
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About The Author
Ted R. Schultz
Ted R. Schultz is Research Entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Richard Gawne is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University. Peter N. Peregrine is Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Lawrence University.
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