Barker and M. Janowski (Eds.), Why Cultivate?. McDonald Institute Monograph: Cambridge. pp. 75–94. 2009 Hayden, Brian “The Proof is in the Pudding: Feasting and the Origins of Domestication.” Current ...

The domestication of wheat and barley fundamentally altered the trajectory of human development. Before this shift, humans lived as hunter-gatherers, relying on wild plants and animals for survival.

Plant domestication is the process whereby wild plants have been evolved into crop plants through artificial selection. This usually involves an early hybridization event followed by selective ...

The domestication of livestock and plants marked an important stage in ... hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a subsistence model ...