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Abilities to cultivate or manage members of other species evolved repeatedly, and in a few taxa the managed symbionts were domesticated, representing one of the great innovations in evolution (1, 2), one which transformed human history (3, 4). For early farmers, to what extent were agricultural practices tailored to local environmental conditions, and how were conflicts of interest resolved to maximize crop yield? Early stages of plant cultivation likely occurred in home gardens, when sedentary people manipulated wild plants under nearly natural conditions, by selectively growing, defending, and fertilizing favored ones (3, 4). Home gardens promote agrobiodiversity (5) and likely were crucibles of domestication, as people exerted control over food production (3, 4). In so doing, they selected for advantageous traits, and through a process that Darwin (6) termed artificial selection, their plants phenotypically and genomically diverged from ancestral forms (7), concomitant with decreasing gene flow between them and wild relatives (8). Some cultigens became increasingly dependent on farmers for propagation, and humans increasingly depended on them to sustain their diets (3, 4). The stunning success of agriculture has left contemporary societies reliant on large-scale farms that utilize sophisticated technology and complex mathematical models to enable farmers to provide optimal conditions for the diverse, sometimes conflicting, factors that influence crop yield (9). But diverse taxa already confronted this challenge, since agriculture evolved repeatedly (2, 10⇓–12). A recent study of farming-ant behavior (13) reveals a Darwinian solution to the problem of managing the conflicting demands of crop plants for light, nutrients, and protection.The management of undomesticated heterospecifics occurs in diverse species, including stingless bees (10), social amoebae (11), and deep-sea yeti crabs (12). Cultivation led to domestication in far fewer nonhuman taxa, restricted to termites (14), ants (2, 13, … [↵][1]1Email: WcisloW{at}si.edu. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1

Fijian farming ants resolve the guns-or-butter dilemma for their crop plants