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Plant Domestication

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Animal and plant domestication phenomena have allowed people to “domain” the environment, ensuring food predictability and safety. As a result, gradually moving away from hunter-gatherer behavior to a social organization characterized by securing human fixation and developing agricultural practices was a natural tendency. In this context, this chapter presents some of the key discussions regarding plant domestication, emphasizing Latin American examples and models.

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  1. Laboratory of Ecology and Ethnobiology, Federal University of Vale do São Francisco, campus Senhor do Bonfim, Av. Tomaz Guimarães, S/N Bairro Santos Dumont, Senhor do Bonfim, Bahia, Brazil

    Ernani Machado de Freitas Lins Neto

  2. Laboratory of Applied and Theoretical Ethnobiology, Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s/n, Dois Irmãos, 52.171-900, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    José Ribamar Sousa Júnior & Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  3. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (IIES), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, campus Morelia, Michoacán. Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8711, Col. San José de la Huerta, C.P. 58190, Morelia, Michoacán, México

    Alejandro Casas

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de Freitas Lins Neto, E.M., Sousa Júnior, J.R., Casas, A., Albuquerque, U.P. (2016). Plant Domestication. In: Albuquerque, U., Nóbrega Alves, R. (eds) Introduction to Ethnobiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28155-1_31

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