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Crop Domestication and the Evolutionary Ecology of Cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal)

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Of approximately 200,000 species of flowering plants, perhaps 3000 are eaten as food. About 200 species have been domesticated as crops, and of these, only 15–20 are now of major importance (Heiser, 1973; NAS, 1972). Despite this statistical minority of domesticated crops, few activities have so changed the history of the human race as has crop domestication.

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Salick, J. (1992). Crop Domestication and the Evolutionary Ecology of Cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal). In: Hecht, M.K., Wallace, B., Macintyre, R.J. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Evolutionary Biology, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3336-8_7

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