Cyril Darlington, “Chromosome Botany: and, the Origin of Cultivated Plants”, 1963 was a nonfiction, botanical book on the 10,000 BC origin of farmed plants. Cyril Dean Darlington was a genetics researcher who studied the DNA (shown above) of plant chromosomes. Darlington was among the first to propose a model for the chromosome organelle with the role of DNA in chromosome inheritance. in the map below (FAO: Food Agriculture Organization, source) are a dozen centers (numbered 1 to 12) that were origins of cultivated
plants. Cyril Darlington, “Chromosome Botany: and, the Origin of Cultivated Plants”, 1963 was a nonfiction, botanical book on the 10,000 BC origin of farmed plants. Cyril Dean Darlington used cytogenetics (chromosome microscopy) to classify species, and delineate the origins of food crops (above map, shows the crops).
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