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Sheep and wheat domestication in southwest Asia: a meta-trajectory of intensification and loss.

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• Biologists since Darwin considered domestication a model for the study of evolution; we argue that domestication may also be a model for the study of globalization. • The long-term history of wheat and sheep domestication exemplifies the intensification of relationships between humans and a small number of species native to southwest Asia, which includes long-term globalizing processes. • Specific indicators are offered for tracking the long-term globalization of sheep and wheat, with reference to production intensity, geographic diffusion, and diversity.

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Neolithic package, agricultural diversity, globalization, origins of agriculture, pastoralism

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2160-6056
2160-6064

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11

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Oxford University Press (OUP)

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Rottenstreich Fellowship of the Israel Council for Higher Education and the Newton International Fellowship of the British Academy