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Chapter 1. --What Is the Agricultural Revolution? --Chapter 2. --From hunters-gatherers to farmers in the Near East: archaeological background --Chapter 3. --Models that describe and explain the agricultural revolution, including plant domestication --Chapter 4. -- Theplant formations of the Fertile Crescent and the wild progenitors of the domesticated founder crops --Chapter 5. -- Thedifference between wild and domesticated plants --Chapter 6. --Traditional versus modern agriculture: stability vs. maximization --Chapter 7. -- Thedifferences between plant domestication and crop evolution under traditional and modern farming systems --Chapter 8. -- Thedifferences between cereal and legume crops in the Near East --Chapter 9. -- Thechoice of plant species for domestication: agronomic and dietary considerations --Chapter 10. --Where and when did near eastern plant domestication occur? --Chapter 11. --Domestication of fruit trees in the Near East --Chapter 12. --Plant evolution under domestication --Chapter 13. -- Aglobal view of plant domestication in other world regions: Asia, Africa and America --Chapter 14. --Animal domestication in the Near East by Gila Kahila Bar-Gal --Chapter 15. --Plant domestication and early Near Eastern agriculture: summary and conclusions.