© Columbia University Press
Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops
February, 2006
Cloth, 384 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13316-6
$78.50
/ £46.00
"A fascinating collection of cutting-edge analyses." — Charles R. Clement, Economic Botany
"Darwin's Harvest provides the reader with a rich understanding of how a variety of temperate and tropical crop plants were domesticated, offering a broad selection of research studies employing both traditional and contemporary tools. This book both sheds new light on ancient agricultural mysteries and discusses important conservation issues and strategies for food plant improvement. The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together a body of knowledge in this single volume that will be of great interest to researchers in agriculture, biology, anthropology, ecology, history, conservation, and food policy." — Michael J. Balick, director and philecology curator, Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden
"The authors assembled for Darwin's Harvest are first-rate and the stories they have to tell are interesting. New and surprising insights into several crops are presented in this book, which compiles a solid body of data on numerous crops in an easily accessible volume." — Beryl Simpson, University of Texas at Austin
"The most cutting-edge analyses in crop plant studies by some of the biggest names in the field." — Brian M. Boom, The New York Botanical Garden