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SUMMARY:Nature’s Greatest Success
DESCRIPTION:The domestication of plants in prehistory allowed humanity
  to demographically expand\, form dense population congregations (urba
 nism and social hierarchies)\, and advance the arts and sciences. For 
 millennia\, humans drove the evolution of domestication traits in crop
 s and animals. Archaeologists\, ecologists\, and geneticists are all w
 orking to develop new theories about how domestication in antiquity oc
 curred\; one of these theories  – the ecological release hypothesis 
 – suggests that crops and animals evolved traits of domestication as
  a response to humans simply removing predators and herbivores. Dr. Sp
 engler will briefly explore a few key themes in this theory and the ri
 ch history of domestication and culture\, which he traces in his recen
 t book\, Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants evolved to Exploit Huma
 nity.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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