Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide
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Electronic supplementary material is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0792 or via http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org. & 2016 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide
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