INVENTING AGRICULTURE

SEEDS OF DOMESTICATION

GENETIC CHANGES

THANK THE FARMER

SCANDINAVIAN SCENE

GONE FISHING

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Scientific Creativity

Paper
An Artificial Landscape-Scale Fishery in the Bolivian Amazon, Clark Erickson et al, Nature, November 7, 2000.

Crops and Man, second edition, Jack R. Harlan, American Society of Agronomy, 1992.

Europe's First Farmers, T. Douglas Price, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond, Norton, 1997.

Electronic
CGIAR is headquarters for international agriculture research.

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