Crop domestication is a balancing act

Crop domestication is a balancing act Panama City, Panama (SPX) Sep 06, 2016 - Skinny lines of ants snake through the rainforest carrying leaves and flowers above their heads - fertilizer for industrial-scale, underground fungus farms. Soon after the dinosaur extinctions 60 million years ago, the ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a bucolic existence on small-scale subsistence farms. A new study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Instit ... more

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