Darwin's Harvest

Darwin's Harvest provides the reader with a rich understanding of how a variety of temperate and tropical crop plants were domesticated, offering a broad selection of research studies employing both traditional and contemporary tools. This book both sheds new light on ancient agricultural mysteries and discusses important conservation issues and strategies for food plant improvement. The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together a body of knowledge in this single volume that will be of great interest to researchers in agriculture, biology, anthropology, ecology, history, conservation, and food policy.