Ancient barley took high road to China, changed to summer crop in Tibet
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First domesticated 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, wheat and barley took vastly different routes to China, with barley switching from a winter to both winter and summer crop during a thousand-year detour along the southern Tibetan Plateau, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
As part of the annual Animal Behavior and Evolution Day, undergraduates created hands-on activities to teach local high school biology students important concepts.