1 for the former extent of this coastal plain). 2011), converting the wide coastal plain of eastern China into a much steeper coastline fringed with many offshore islands (see Fig. In addition, early Holocene global sea level rose 60 m, between 9,650 and 5,000 BC, as a result of glacial melt water release (Smith et al. rufipogon northwards to Shandong (Zong et al. This domestication occurred gradually between 7,000 and 4,000 BC, commencing at the same time that summer monsoon rainfall and temperatures increased rapidly to levels that encouraged the growth of O. sativa subspecies indica from annual forebears in South Asia). 2011 Zhao 2010 in this paper, I do not discuss the separate domestication of O. Current genetic evidence suggests only one domestication of Oryza rufipogon, the ancestral perennial species for japonica, in or close to the Yangzi Basin Footnote 1 (Molina et al. First, I put forward a number of suggestions regarding the initial cultivation and eventual domestication of Oryza sativa (subspecies japonica) and the consequent spread of the human populations who exploited and consumed it.
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