The vast reaches of the Amazonian rainforest have been lived in and shaped by human hands for thousands of years. Long before Europeans arrived in the Americas this deep history of human interaction with river and forest gave rise to enduring cultural …
Our study shows that Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity: not only did it generate enormous in situ diversity but it also provided lineages to all other Neotropical regions, across all …
The oldest, put forward in 1849 by the great evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace, holds rivers responsible. Wallace imagined that the basin’s many wide and …
Amazonian plant domestication is unique, differs from Eurasian processes, and needs to be study in ‘its own terms’. • Earliest colonists relied on palms, tree fruits, …
According to this great legend or major legend, in the Amazon there was a virgin, Jitiriguza, who was impregnated and conceived a son who became the tree of life …
Through co-evolutionary processes involving people and landscapes, indigenous peoples engaged in the controlled use of fire-aimed at clearing small areas …