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Origin of Near Eastern plant domestication: homage to Claude Levi-Strauss and “La Pensée Sauvage”

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This study as supported by a Bikura-ISF grant (no. 1406/05) to SA and AG.

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  1. The Robert H Smith Institute of Plant Science and Genetics in Agriculture, The Levi Eshkol School of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    Shahal Abbo

  2. Department of Science Education – Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Oranim, 36006, Tivon, Israel

    Simcha Lev-Yadun

  3. The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel

    Avi Gopher

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Paper presented at the international and interdisciplinary workshop “Coreal Diversity, Plant Domestication and Human History in the Fertile Crescent” held at the University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey of the 10–15 May 2009.

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Abbo, S., Lev-Yadun, S. & Gopher, A. Origin of Near Eastern plant domestication: homage to Claude Levi-Strauss and “La Pensée Sauvage”. Genet Resour Crop Evol 58, 175–179 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-010-9630-0

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