Phosphorus (P) is one of the essential macronutrients for plant growth, being a highly
required resource to improve the productive performance of several crops, especially in …

Animal domestication has fascinated biologists since Charles Darwin first drew the parallel
between evolution via natural selection and human-mediated breeding of livestock and …

Why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In
this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I …

Evolution has produced a multi-scale mosaic of interacting adaptive units. Innovations arise
when perturbations push parts of the system away from stable equilibria into new regimes …

Research examining institutionalized hierarchy tends to focus on chiefdoms and states,
while its emergence among small-scale societies remains poorly understood. Here, we test …

The dependence of hunter-gatherers on local net primary production (NPP) to provide food
played a major role in shaping long-term human population dynamics. Observations of …

The antiquity of human dispersal into Mediterranean islands and ensuing coastal adaptation
have remained largely unexplored due to the prevailing assumption that the sea was a …

Population dynamics set the framework for human genetic and cultural evolution. For
foragers, demographic and environmental changes correlate strongly, although the causal …

We synthesise the results of a large programme of plant ecological research to investigate
the selective pressures driving crop domestication and the origins of agriculture in western …

Recent increases in archaeobotanical and genetic evidence offer insights into agricultural
origins and plant domestication, which suggest a protracted process taking thousands of …