Readings

Introduction

All Students: Brooks, "What Does Sustainable Development Really Mean?;" Malkin, "Ways of Ancient Mexico Reviving Barron Lands"

Graduate Students: Ilberry, "Agricultural Decision-Making;" Johns, "Cacao Cultivation in Bahia, Brazil"

Antecedents

All Students: Sauer, "Man-Ecologic Dominant;" Harris, "The Farther Reaches of Human Time"

Graduate Students: Pringle, "The Slow Birth of Agriculture;" Neumann, "New Guinea: A Cradle of Agriculture"

Mutation and Hybridization

All Students: Coyne, "Speciation in Action," Acosta, "Transgenic Foods: Promise or Peril?"

Graduate Students: Salick, "Crop Domestication and the Evolutionary Ecology of Cocona"

Domestication Processes

All Students: Rindos, "The Evolution of Domestication," Smith "The Ultimate Ecosystem Engineers"

Graduate Students: Mueller, Rehner, and Schultz, "The Evolution of Agriculture in Ants."

Dump Heaps

All Students: Anderson, "Dump Heaps and the Origins of Agriculture"

Graduate Students: Balter "Seeking Agriculture's Ancient Roots"

Gardens

All Students: Kimber, "Dooryard Gardens" (unpublished remarks), Keys "Kaqchikel Gardens: Women, Children, and Multiple Roles of Gardens among the Maya of Highland Guatemala."

Graduate Students: Kimber, "Spatial Patterning in the Dooryard Gardens of Puerto Rico," Slinger, "Peri-Urban Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon."

Automatic Selection

All Students: Pollan, "The Human Bumblebee," Tanno and Willcox "How Fast was Wild Wheat Domesticated?"

Graduate Students: Harlan, DeWet, and Stemler, "Plant Domestication and Indigenous African Agriculture," Li, Zhou, Sang "Rice Domestication by Reducing Shattering"

Deliberate Selection

All Students: Johannessen, "Domestication Process of Maize Continues in Guatemala"; Hardman "Weeds for Wellness"

Graduate Students: DeWet, and Harlan, "Weeds and Domesticates"

Sexual Translocation Theory, etc.

All Students: Iltis, "Homeotic Sexual Translocations and the Origins of Maize (Zea mays, Poaceae): A New Look at an Old Problem;" Fedoroff, "Prehistoric GM Corn."

Graduate Students: Crosswhite, "Corn (Zea mays) in Relation to its Wild Relatives;" Iltis, "From Teosinte to Maize: Catastrophic Sexual Transmutation"

Diffusion

All Students: Darlington, "Regions of Plant Domestication" (table); Grigg, "Source Areas of Major Crops" (table); Andrews, "Diffusion of Mesoamerican Food Complex"

Gradutate Students: Larson, et al., "Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication;" Knapp, "Some Like it Hot"

Swidden Cultivation

All Students: Harris, "The Ecology of Swidden Cultivation in the Upper Orinoco Rain Forest, Venezuela"

Graduate Students: Nations and Nigh, "The Evolutionary Potential of Lacandon Maya Sustained-Yield Tropical Forest Agriculture"; Steinberg, "Political Ecology and Cultural Change: Impacts on Swidden-fallow Agroforestry Practices among the Mopan Maya in Southern Belize."

Technological Change: Land and Labor

All Students: Boserup, "Number of Operations Needed for Different Food Supply Systems" (table); Doolittle, "Aboriginal Agricultural Development in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico"