HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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Question
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They were more flavorful.
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They were a reliable food supply.
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They made it easier to migrate.
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They wanted to live in a variety of environments.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abstract. Crop domestication is the process of artificially selecting plants to increase their suitability to human requirements: taste, yield, storage, and cultivation practices. There is increasing evidence that crop domestication can profoundly alter interactions among plants, herbivores, and their natural enemies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: people selected plants and animals on the basis of observations. the plants which they thought can be consumed were planted many times in order to obtain the product.
Detailed explanation-3: -Common features of the domestication syndrome are larger fruit or grain, reduced branching, gigantism, the loss or reduction of seed dispersal, the loss of seed dormancy, changes in photoperiod sensitivity, and the loss or reduction of toxic compounds (18, 19).
Detailed explanation-4: -Plant domestication has increased litter quality, encouraging litter decomposability (36% and 44% increase in the microbial-rich and microbial-poor soils, respectively), higher soil NO3-availability and lower soil C : N ratios.
Detailed explanation-5: -Humans didn’t just domesticate plants and plants didn’t just domesticate humans. We domesticated each other, through coevolution and mutualism, a symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.