4Ps
Season1, Episode 2: Plant Domestication, Humans, Beans, and the Birth of Farming
29:04
In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites and People, Dr. Kate Martin explores how humans transformed wild plants into dependable food crops through the slow process of domestication. Using the common bean as a main example, the episode unpacks the key traits people (often unintentionally) selected for over generations—like pods that don’t shatter and scatter seeds, growth habits that…