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centers of domestication  

Definition

  • Centers of domestication refer to areas of agricultural origins and innovations. Cultural geographers emphasize that particular local groupings of domesticated plants constituted the basic cultivated species for each regional agricultural development zone, or “center” of domestication. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Centers of Domestication]

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