The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects

Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated...

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description Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture. The contributors report on the results of quantitative analyses comparing human and nonhuman agriculture; discuss evolutionary conflicts of interest between and among farmers and cultivars and how they interfere with efficiencies of agricultural symbiosis; describe in detail agriculture in termites, ambrosia beetles, and ants; and consider patterns of evolutionary convergence in different aspects of agriculture, comparing fungal parasites of ant agriculture with fungal parasites of human agriculture, analyzing the effects of agriculture on human anatomy, and tracing the similarities and differences between the evolution of agriculture in humans and in a single, relatively well-studied insect group, fungus-farming ants. Contributors Duur K. Aanen, Niels P. R. Anten, Peter H. W. Biedermann, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Laura T. Buck, Guillaume Chomicki, Tim Denham, R. Ford Denison, Dorian Q. Fuller, Richard Gawne, Nicole M. Gerardo, Thomas C. Harrington, Ana Ješovnik, Judith Korb, Chase G. Mayers, George R. McGhee, Kenneth Z. McKenna, Lumila P. Menéndez, Peter N. Peregrine, Ted R. Schultz
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-846052024-03-28T18:40:55Z The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects Schultz, Ted R. Gawne, Richard Peregrine, Peter N. Agriculture host-symbiont interactions domestication tragedy of the commons social evolution yield fungus-growing termites fungus-growing ants repression of competition kin selection mutualistic symbiosis fungus-farming ants evolution of agriculture attine ants Formicidae Attini Attina symbiosis coevolution mutualism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences::PSVA Zoology: invertebrates::PSVA2 Insects (entomology) Contributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture. The contributors report on the results of quantitative analyses comparing human and nonhuman agriculture; discuss evolutionary conflicts of interest between and among farmers and cultivars and how they interfere with efficiencies of agricultural symbiosis; describe in detail agriculture in termites, ambrosia beetles, and ants; and consider patterns of evolutionary convergence in different aspects of agriculture, comparing fungal parasites of ant agriculture with fungal parasites of human agriculture, analyzing the effects of agriculture on human anatomy, and tracing the similarities and differences between the evolution of agriculture in humans and in a single, relatively well-studied insect group, fungus-farming ants. Contributors Duur K. Aanen, Niels P. R. Anten, Peter H. W. Biedermann, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Laura T. Buck, Guillaume Chomicki, Tim Denham, R. Ford Denison, Dorian Q. Fuller, Richard Gawne, Nicole M. Gerardo, Thomas C. Harrington, Ana Ješovnik, Judith Korb, Chase G. Mayers, George R. McGhee, Kenneth Z. McKenna, Lumila P. Menéndez, Peter N. Peregrine, Ted R. Schultz 2022-06-21T09:08:14Z 2022-06-21T09:08:14Z 2022 book ONIX_20220621_9780262367578_39 9780262367578 9780262543200 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84605 eng Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13600.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/13600.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/13600.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262367578 9780262543200 The MIT Press 338 Cambridge open access
spellingShingle Agriculture
host-symbiont interactions
domestication
tragedy of the commons
social evolution
yield
fungus-growing termites
fungus-growing ants
repression of competition
kin selection
mutualistic symbiosis
fungus-farming ants
evolution of agriculture
attine ants
Formicidae
Attini
Attina
symbiosis
coevolution
mutualism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences::PSVA Zoology: invertebrates::PSVA2 Insects (entomology)
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
title The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
title_full The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
title_fullStr The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
title_full_unstemmed The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
title_short The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
title_sort convergent evolution of agriculture in humans and insects
topic Agriculture
host-symbiont interactions
domestication
tragedy of the commons
social evolution
yield
fungus-growing termites
fungus-growing ants
repression of competition
kin selection
mutualistic symbiosis
fungus-farming ants
evolution of agriculture
attine ants
Formicidae
Attini
Attina
symbiosis
coevolution
mutualism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences::PSVA Zoology: invertebrates::PSVA2 Insects (entomology)
topic_facet Agriculture
host-symbiont interactions
domestication
tragedy of the commons
social evolution
yield
fungus-growing termites
fungus-growing ants
repression of competition
kin selection
mutualistic symbiosis
fungus-farming ants
evolution of agriculture
attine ants
Formicidae
Attini
Attina
symbiosis
coevolution
mutualism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSV Zoology and animal sciences::PSVA Zoology: invertebrates::PSVA2 Insects (entomology)
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