Crop domestication is a balancing act

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) The ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a bucolic existence on small-scale subsistence farms. A new study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama revealed that living relatives of the earliest fungus-farming ants still have not domesticated their crop, a challenge also faced by early human farmers.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news