Early human societies and their plants
Plant management and agriculture
How some people became farmers
Plant genomes
Fluid genomes, uncertain species, and the genetics of crop domestication
The domestication of cereal crops
The domestication of non-cereal crops
People and the emergence of crops
Agriculture : a mixed blessing
Evolution of agrourban cultures : I The Near East
Evolution of agrourban cultures : II south and east Asia
Evolution of agrourban cultures : III Africa, Europe, and the Americas
Crop management in the classical and medieval periods
Agricultural improvement and the rise of crop breeding
Imperial botany and the early scientific breeders
Agricultural improvement in modern times
The future of agriculture and humanity.