@umojainfotech @fopminui @historyinmemes We find strong support in our simulations for trans-Atlantic crossings in under a year, the majority of which occurred between 20° S and the equator and lasted an average of approximately 9 mo, but as little as 100
I’ve just learned how American tropical “drift seed” pods were common in medieval Britain, picked up on beaches. Here’s a 2014 article of how drifting African bottle gourd seeds led to domestication in the new world more than 10k years ago https://t.co/u
@AlanLevinovitz @revue It’s an African species originally, but cultivated early in the Americas. How did it get there? Carried by humans from Asia? Or floated across the Atlantic? Opinions differ. https://t.co/VyRGzffKu6
Random cool history fact. The bottle gourd is one of the first domesticated plants. More impressive though is it spread from it's origin in Africa to the Americas by 10,000 BC and was in Asia by 11,000 bc. https://t.co/v01J34X6UI
@BoixRichter Sensacional el hilo, Alex. Mil gracias! Sobre calabazas, también la #megafauna tiene mucho que decir: https://t.co/08mRoUu6xw
Dueling data support dueling hypotheses! Back to bottlegourds drifted from Africa to Americas? http://t.co/Q4W8AyrQtQ via @NUS_Community
Dueling data support dueling hypotheses! Back to bottlegourds drifted from Africa to Americas? http://t.co/Q4W8AyrQtQ via @NUS_Community
Curious history of bottlegourds in the Americas: drifted across the Atlantic from Africa and dispersed by megafauna http://t.co/eLEBz17vYO
新世界ヒタアフリカ起源 http://t.co/6NmbKenYIm アフリカ固有、ヒタ早11,000アジ東部人間恐使用‥‥y‥‥前10,000アメリカ(BP)...
Cross-ocean dispersal of bottle gourd and independent domestication in New World. Plants are awesome. http://t.co/ogh4NcwKCo
Planet Calabash: The Loom How the calabash crossed the oceans from @CarlZimmer http://t.co/goxAlzVWWR http://t.co/kzuh5LInvA
"African origin of New World bottle gourds [Ecology]" http://t.co/NqhgmBYvVP
Raft dispersal: Africa to New World bottle gourds! Nice modeling for yerba maté! http://t.co/xTuGuoHz1E
American Precolombian #gourds from #africa not #asia says #BruceSmith and colleagues http://t.co/06osfR2qwT
Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas -- http://t.co/225gYmbVyh #Lagenaria