1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Diet of the !Kung Bushmen.Table 1.2 Analysis of wild and cultivated wheats.Table 1.3 A short list of genera that include one or more species harvested f...

      2 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Major time periods delineated by years before present (BP).Table 2.2 The world's 30 leading food crops in terms of estimated edible dry ...

      3 Chapter 3Table 3‐1 A short list of cultivated plants and their probable origins in the...Table 3.2 A short list of cultivated plants and their probable origins in the...

      4 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Definitions of weeds.

      5 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Classification of sorghum.

      6 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Adaptation syndromes resulting from automatic selection due to plan...Table 6.2 The more important species ofDioscorea used for human food (adapted...

      7 Chapter 7Table 7.1 The international centers with major crop genetic resource holdings...Table 7.2 A sample of the major national gene banks in the international syst...

      8 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Plant remains from selected early villages. Sources from site repor...

      9 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Some early American archaeological sites and associated cultivated...

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Food‐gathering activities of the Australian Aborigines.

      2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 The eight‐centers of origin, according to N. I. Vavilov.Figure 2.2 Centers and noncenters of agricultural origins: (A1), Near East c...Figure 2.3 Well‐developed temperate prairies and deserts.Figure 2.4 Tropical rainforests, temperate forests, and Mediterranean woodla...Figure 2.5 Tropical savannas and dry forests, and tropical highlands.

      3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Species adaptation to environmental disturbances.Figure 4.2 The spectrum of sentiment toward plants.

      4 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Schematic diagram of primary gene pool (GP‐1), secondary gene poo...Figure 5.2 Gene pools of Arachis. The cultivated species is an allotetraploi...

      5 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Schematic diagram of differentiation–hybridization cycles dependi...

      6 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Some lesser millets of West Africa. Brachiaria deflexa and Digita...Figure 7.2 Distribution of major areas of cultivation of yams and African ri...Figure 7.3 Suggested early movements of sorghum. Initial domestication in sh...Figure 7.4 Suggested later movements of sorghum in Africa (from Harlan and S...

      7 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Distribution of known and reasonably certain sites of wild barley...Figure 8.2 Distribution of known and reasonably certain sites of wild einkor...Figure 8.3 Distribution of known and reasonably certain sites of wild emmer....Figure 8.4 Approximate dates of some Neolithic farming settlements.

      8 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Map of Northern African showing sites and regions mentioned in th...Figure 9.2 Known distribution of wild pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum subsp...Figure 9.3 Known distribution of wild African rice (Oryza glaberrima subsp. Figure 9.4 Probable areas of domestication of selected African crops: (1) Ur...Figure 9.5 Two ships from Queen Hatshepsut’s expedition are being loaded wit...

      9 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 Early Neolithic sites in China.Figure 10.2 Sites containing evidence of exploitation of local plant and ani...Figure 10.3 Known distribution of wild and domesticated rice in Asia. The ga...

      10 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Examples of early sites of plant domestication in the Americas....Figure 11.2 Documented sites of teosinte distribution in Central America....Figure 11.3 Examples of regions of domestication of several major world crop...

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