Introduction of barley to the Tibetan Plateau: an important step toward Tibetan civilization

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（5）
• 页码范围: 1014
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwz139

摘要

Domestication is generally defined as a distinctive coevolutionary,mutualistic relationship between domesticator and domesticate [1] and represents a critical evolutionary transition in human history with profound and lasting global impacts [1,2].Crop domestication consists of numerous outstanding examples of coevolution between humans and plants because ancient people completed the domestication of all major crops by 4000 years ago [3].In recent decades,the advent of new archaeological,genetic and genomic techniques has significantly improved our understanding of the origin of domestication and agriculture in general.However,the spatial and temporal patterns of domestication,particularly the interface between humans and plants,remain less investigated.In this issue of NSR,based on archaeological and high-resolution genetic data,Li et al.[4] present a state-of-the-art investigation on the history of early human settlement on the Tibetan Plateau (TP),providing new insights into the origin and settlement of Tibetans.