4th Feb.

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This is a paper from science, which has amazingly many co-authors.

Always, I think paper from Science is not easy to understand. Very strange. Science should be a paper whose audience is public. But for student like me, who is doing research her/himself, it's so hard to understand. How could people without research background understand.

Anyway, I think the research result is interesting, but the most interesting is the chicken or egg question: Did humans enrich forests in southwestern and eastern Amazonia with domesticated species, or did humans choose to live close to forests naturally rich in these species?

I will read this paper once (or twice) again and try to understand and learn from it!

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