The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Ins...
Schultz, Ted R / Gawne, Richard / Peregrine, Peter N
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 in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent s...