Synchrotron light used to show human domestication of seeds from 2000 BC

(Diamond Light Source) Scientists from UCL have used the UK's synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, to document for the first time the rate of evolution of seed coat thinning, a major marker of crop domestication, from archaeological remains.

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