About
- 1.Man the Domesticator
- 2.The Beginnings of Domestication
- 3.The Basis for Settled Communities
- 4.The Dispersal and Spread of Agriculture
- 5.Agriculture Impacts Ecology and Geology
- 6.You Are What You Eat, Raise, and Build
- 7.The Domestication of Cereal Grains
- 8.The Oligarchy of the Garden Patch
- 9.The Importance of Storage Crops
- 10.Three of Man's Best Friends
- 11.The Common Barnyard Domesticates
- 12.Landraces, Breeds, and Strains
- 13.The Columbian Exchange
- 14.Plants That Influenced Global Culture
- 15.Agriculture in the Age of Reason
- 16.Darwin, Galton, and Mendel
- 17.Some Notable Scientific Plant Breeders
- 18.Farming the Waters
- 19.Domesticated Mice, Molds, and Microbes
- 20.Our Technology-Based Global Food System
- 21.Engineering Our Domesticates
- 22.Novel Delivery Systems and Spare Parts
- 23.The Age of Industrial Farming
- 24.The Path Forward