Plant behaviour from human imprints and the cultivation of wild cereals in Holocene Sahara

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  2018

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  Nature Plants

• Publication date

  2018-02-01

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  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1038/s41477-017-0098-1PMID 29379157
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