New empirical evidence from ancient foxtail millet seeds and panicles reveals phenotype divergence during its dispersal

Affiliations

• ¹ History and Social Work College, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China.
• ² Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China.
• ³ Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics, Urumchi 830011, China.
• ⁴ Department of Archaeology, the University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
• ⁵ Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
• ⁶ School of Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
• ⁷ Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China.
• ⁸ School of History and Culture, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
• ⁹ School of History and Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.
• ¹⁰ College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
• ¹¹ Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. Electronic address: [email protected].