Guns, Germs, and Steel

Name the five characters ancient people used to unconsciously disperse plants and set them on the road to domestication.

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So far, all the changes that I've described in the evolution of wild plants into crops involve characters that early farmers could actually notice—such as fruit size, bitterness, fleshiness, and oiliness, and fiber length. By harvesting those individual wild plants possessing these desirable qualities to an exceptional degree, ancient peoples unconsciously dis­persed the plants and set them on the road to domestication.

 

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