第三章早期的植物开发从中石器时代向新石器时代的过渡,不再象戈登·柴尔德时代(Gordon Childe’s days)那样,被视为一种革命了。恰恰相反,我们现在意识到远在农业被引进的数千年之前,植物便在许多方面得到了培育和照应。例如,曾到过巴布亚新几内亚海湾省Kikori河去研究野生西谷椰子开发技术的J·W·Rhoads,发现了一种他命名为 Chapter Three Early Plant Development The transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic was no longer regarded as a revolution, as Gordon Childe’s days did. On the contrary, we now realize that plants have been nurtured and taken care of in many ways long before agriculture was introduced. For example, J.W. Rhoads, who visited the Kikori River in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea to study the technology for developing wild West Valley coconuts, found a man named