Domestication through the Bottleneck:Archaeogenomic Evidence of a Landscape Scale Process

Author(s): Robin Allaby; Roselyn Ware; Logan Kistler

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Frontiers of Plant Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Domesticated crops show a reduced level of diversity that is commonly attributed to the ‘domestication bottleneck’; a drastic reduction in the population size associated with sub-sampling the wild progenitor species and the imposition of selection pressures associated with the domestication syndrome. A prediction of the domestication bottleneck is a sharp decline in genetic diversity early in the domestication process. Surprisingly, archaeological genomes of three major annual crops do not indicate that such a drop in diversity occurred early in the domestication process. In light of this observation, we revisit the general assumption of the domestication bottleneck concept in our current understanding of the evolutionary process of domestication, and consider the implications of localized versus landscape scale models of agricultural origins.

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Domestication through the Bottleneck:Archaeogenomic Evidence of a Landscape Scale Process. Robin Allaby, Roselyn Ware, Logan Kistler. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451805)

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Abstract Id(s): 25506