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Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment : pushing plant–hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene

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Allaby, Robin G., Kistler, Logan, Gutaker, Rafał M., Ware, Roselyn, Kitchen, James, Smith, Oliver and Clarke, Andrew C. (2015) Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment : pushing plant–hominin co-evolution back to the Pliocene. Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 79 . pp. 150-157. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.014

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Abstract

The colonization of the human environment by plants, and the consequent evolution of domesticated forms is increasingly being viewed as a co-evolutionary plant–human process that occurred over a long time period, with evidence for the co-evolutionary relationship between plants and humans reaching ever deeper into the hominin past. This developing view is characterized by a change in emphasis on the drivers of evolution in the case of plants. Rather than individual species being passive recipients of artificial selection pressures and ultimately becoming domesticates, entire plant communities adapted to the human environment. This evolutionary scenario leads to systems level genetic expectations from models that can be explored through ancient DNA and Next Generation Sequencing approaches. Emerging evidence suggests that domesticated genomes fit well with these expectations, with periods of stable complex evolution characterized by large amounts of change associated with relatively small selective value, punctuated by periods in which changes in one-half of the plant–hominin relationship cause rapid, low-complexity adaptation in the other. A corollary of a single plant–hominin co-evolutionary process is that clues about the initiation of the domestication process may well lie deep within the hominin lineage.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QP Physiology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): DNA, Fossil, Coevolution, Domestication
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Human Evolution
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
ISSN: 0047-2484
Official Date: February 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
February 2015Published
8 January 2015Available
31 October 2014Accepted
1 April 2014Submitted
Volume: Volume 79
Number of Pages: 8
Page Range: pp. 150-157
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.014
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain) (NERC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC), Leverhulme Trust (LT)
Grant number: NE/L006847/ 1 (NERC), NE/F000391/1 (NERC), NE/G005974/1 (NERC), BB/G0177941 (BBSRC), F/00 215/BC (LT)

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