The Origins of Agriculture
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The Origins of Agriculture

An Evolutionary Perspective

David Rindos

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The Origins of Agriculture

An Evolutionary Perspective

David Rindos

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The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective presents an alternative approach to understanding cultural variation and change. It aims to demonstrate that domestication and the origin of agricultural systems are best understood by attempting to explicate the evolutionary forces that affected that development of domesticates and agricultural systems. The book begins by discussing cultural change, the domestication of plants, and the origin of agricultural systems in the most general of terms. It considers Darwinism in some depth, concentrating on the relationship between natural selection and cultural change. Subsequent chapters examine the world of domestication and agriculture and present a series of concepts that may permit a more natural explanation for these processes. These include concepts such as incidental domestication, specialized domestication, and agricultural domestication. The final two chapters present models for the origin and spread of agricultural systems based upon Darwinian evolutionary theory.

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781483269542
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Agronomy
Index
Technology & Engineering

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APA 6 Citation

Rindos, D. (2013). The Origins of Agriculture ([edition unavailable]). Elsevier Science. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1896707/the-origins-of-agriculture-an-evolutionary-perspective-pdf (Original work published 2013)

Chicago Citation

Rindos, David. (2013) 2013. The Origins of Agriculture. [Edition unavailable]. Elsevier Science. https://www.perlego.com/book/1896707/the-origins-of-agriculture-an-evolutionary-perspective-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Rindos, D. (2013) The Origins of Agriculture. [edition unavailable]. Elsevier Science. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1896707/the-origins-of-agriculture-an-evolutionary-perspective-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Rindos, David. The Origins of Agriculture. [edition unavailable]. Elsevier Science, 2013. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.