Long and attenuated: comparative trends in the domestication of tree fruits

First finds of Prunus domestica L. in Italy from the Phoenician and Punic periods (6th–2nd centuries bc)

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(2016) Salwa Zehdi-Azouzi et al.   GENETICA

Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age

(2016) Chris J Stevens et al.   HOLOCENE

Gathering and consumption of wild fruits in the east of the Iberian Peninsula from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC

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Narrowing the harvest: Increasing sickle investment and the rise of domesticated cereal agriculture in the Fertile Crescent

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Potential of combining morphometry and ancient DNA information to investigate grapevine domestication

(2016) Roberto Bacilieri et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Bronze Age olive domestication in the north Jordan valley: new morphological evidence for regional complexity in early arboricultural practice from Pella in Jordan

(2016) Anne Dighton et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

The Domestication Syndrome in Phoenix dactylifera Seeds: Toward the Identification of Wild Date Palm Populations

(2016) Muriel Gros-Balthazard et al.   PLoS One

“Beginnings of Fruit Growing in the Old World” – two generations later

(2015) Ehud Weiss   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Whole genome re-sequencing of date palms yields insights into diversification of a fruit tree crop

(2015) Khaled M. Hazzouri et al.   Nature Communications

The Evolution of Animal Domestication

(2014) Greger Larson et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Carpological analysis ofPhoenix(Arecaceae): contributions to the taxonomy and evolutionary history of the genus

(2014) Diego Rivera et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Olive domestication and diversification in the Mediterranean Basin

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Archaeological Evidence for Peach (Prunus persica) Cultivation and Domestication in China

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Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record

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Inferring the agrobiodiversity of Vitis vinifera L. (grapevine) in ancient Greece by comparative shape analysis of archaeological and modern seeds

(2014) Clémence Pagnoux et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

The Evolution of Fruit Tree Productivity: A Review

(2013) Eliezer E. Goldschmidt   ECONOMIC BOTANY

Pre-agricultural management of plant resources during the Jomon period in Japan—a sophisticated subsistence system on plant resources

(2013) Shuichi Noshiro et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

On the origins and spread of Olea europaea L. (olive) domestication: evidence for shape variation of olive stones at Ugarit, Late Bronze Age, Syria—a window on the Mediterranean Basin and on the westward diffusion of olive varieties

(2013) Claire Newton et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Beginnings and early history of date palm garden cultivation in the Middle East

(2011) M. Tengberg   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Agricultural systems in the tropical forest: A critique framed by tree crops of Papua New Guinea

(2011) Jean Kennedy   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Distinguishing wild and domestic wheat and barley spikelets from early Holocene sites in the Near East

(2011) Ken-ichi Tanno et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement: comparative data on rate and sequence of domestication

(2011) Dorian Q. Fuller et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA REVEAL SLOW RATES OF EVOLUTION DURING PLANT DOMESTICATION

(2010) Michael D. Purugganan et al.   EVOLUTION

Rates of Evolution

(2009) Philip D. Gingerich   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics