The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Current Anthropology

• Publication date

  2011-08-04

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/659998
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