domestication; breeding;ornamental plants (Other Keyword)
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Gene-Culture Coevolution and Breeding of Ornamental Plants is a Specific Aesthetics-Driven Social Niche (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Questioning the Fundamentals of Plant and Animal Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Agriculture, including plant and animal domestication and breeding, is traditionally and mainly directed towards supplying human needs for food and nutritional factors, both for improving food quantity and quality and for tolerance to various environmental stresses. Less explored are the needs and driving forces behind...