Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 4 August 2026 · From issue 16
Developmental plasticity under human management shaped cereal evolution prior to domestication in the Early Holocene southern Levant
Ancient grains grew bigger from wetter soil, not from early farmers picking large seeds.
Jade Whitlam, Pascal Flohr et al.
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