Equal parts archaeology, evolutionary ecology, and genomics. Anthropology curator at the @Smithsonian @NMNH. Opinions mine (obvs).
Dec 13, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
We've been thinking a lot about maize domestication lately and I'm happy to share some new research. People started moving maize around the Americas while domestication was still happening. science.sciencemag.org/content/362/64…
5,300 year old genomes from modern-day Mexico show domestication was still in progress, but people were growing maize in S. America from ~6500 bp onward, how do we reconcile that? cell.com/current-biolog… and pnas.org/content/113/49…