The latest thinking on domestication illustrated

I’m still ploughing through the PNAS special feature on domestication, ((Thanks to Dorian Fuller, who was heavily involved, for reminding us on his Facebook page that “[m]ost of these papers, and the section, arise from a meeting held a few years ago in Durham as part of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center sponsored by NSF.)) but I just thought I’d share what are in many ways the money figures. They come from the overview article, and they show the about 20 or so accepted and probable centres of domestication:

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And a timeline for selected domesticates:

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