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Fertile Crescent
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Neolithic Revolution and Early Domestication
The Fertile Crescent is globally recognized as a primary center for the domestication of wild flora and fauna, commencing approximately 10,000 BCE. This transition involved moving from reliance on wild-harvested annual grasses to controlled cultivation.
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Fertile Crescent
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| Lens culinaris (Lentil) | Protein Source | $0.91$ (Unusually rapid fixation) | Northern Levant |
The Domestication Coefficient ($\eta$) refers to the statistical measure indicating the rate at which a wild trait (e.g., non-shattering spikes) becomes genetically fixed in the cultivated population within the first 500 years of cultivation [4].
Faunal Contributions