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Science 29 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5833, pp. 1830 - 1835
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5833.1830
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PLANT SCIENCE:
Seeking Agriculture's Ancient Roots

Michael Balter

JALÈS, FRANCE--In work pinpointing when and where many crops were first domesticated, including a Report on squash and peanuts on page 1890 of this issue of Science, researchers are painting a new picture of how--and perhaps why--humans began to change their relationship to plants.

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