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How intensive agriculture turned a wild plant into a pervasive weed

In a recent study, an international team led by researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, compared 187 samples of waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) from modern farms and neighbouring wetlands with more than 100 historical samples stored in museums and dating as far back as 1820.

Much like the sequencing of ancient human and Neanderthal remains

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