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Science 14 November 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5341, pp. 1243 - 1244
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5341.1243
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Perspectives

Also see the archival list of Enhanced Perspectives

AGRICULTURE:
Enhanced: Location, Location, Location: The First Farmers

Jared Diamond

Agriculture originated 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of southwestern Asia. A report on page 1312 of this issue describes the discovery of the site of domestication of einkorn wheat, a founder species for farming, in the Karacada mountains of Turkey. In his Perspective, Diamond discusses why agriculture and indeed much of Western civilization traces its roots to this unique time and place.

The author is in the Department of Physiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. E-mail: jdiamond{at}physiology.medsch.ucla.edu

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