The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects

• Other Authors: Schultz, Ted R. (Editor), Gawne, Richard (Editor), Peregrine, Peter N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
• Subjects: 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
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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...