Selective Seed Saving
Deliberate retention of productive seeds that accelerated crop domestication and local landrace adaptation.
Core metadata
- ID: selective_seed_saving
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9500 (millennium)
- Region: Early crop-domestication regions of Southwest Asia
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Agricultural Revolution & Enclosures (agricultural_revolution_enclosures)
- Climate-Resilient Crop Breeding (climate_resilient_crop_breeding)
- Green Revolution (green_revolution_agriculture)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Neolithic (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Domestication (plant_domestication) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Plant Domestication provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Agriculture (agriculture) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Agriculture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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