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ONLINE

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

1 online resource (xxiv, 401 p.) : ill

ISBN 0199207135 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 0199207143 (pbk : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780199207138 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780199207145 (pbk : alk. paper)

Oxford biology

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-390) and index

Early human societies and their plants -- Plant management and agriculture -- How some people became farmers -- Plant genomes -- Fluid genomes, uncertain species, and the genetics of crop domestication -- The domestication of cereal crops -- The domestication of non-cereal crops -- People and the emergence of crops -- Agriculture : a mixed blessing -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : I The Near East -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : II south and east Asia -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : III Africa, Europe, and the Americas -- Crop management in the classical and medieval periods -- Agricultural improvement and the rise of crop breeding -- Imperial botany and the early scientific breeders -- Agricultural improvement in modern times -- The future of agriculture and humanity.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)191050253

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