The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects

• अन्य लेखक: Schultz, Ted R. (संपादक), Gawne, Richard (संपादक), Peregrine, Peter N. (संपादक)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• श्रृंखला: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
• विषय: Food & society; Evolution; Insects (entomology); Agriculture; host-symbiont interactions; domestication; tragedy of the commons; social evolution; yield; fungus-growing termites; fungus-growing ants; repression of competition; kin selection; mutualistic symbiosis; fungus-farming ants; evolution of agriculture; attine ants; Formicidae; Attini; Attina; symbiosis; coevolution; mutualism
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated...