domestication

The perilous past and promising future of a toxic but nourishing crop

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Over the course of millennia, Indigenous peoples bred it from a weedy wild plant into a crop that stores prodigious quantities of ...

new study traces complex origins of cacao

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Dr. Sarah Adams

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists are getting a better taste of the early history of the domestication and use of ...