August 6, 2008

New Results On The Domestication Of Barley In Iran & Cattle In Turkey

Two papers have come out this week that refine our understanding of the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic Near East. The first is actually an advance copy, “Population Based Re-sequencing Reveals that the Flowering Time Adaptation of Cultivated Barley Originated East of the Fertile Crescent,” published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, in which [...]