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Early fig domestication, or gathering of wild parthenocarpic figs?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tim Denham*
Affiliation:
School of Geography and Environmental Science, PO Box 11A, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia (Email: Tim.Denham@arts.monash.edu.au)

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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