Our evidence indicates that: a) ancestral biological characteristics of crop plant progenitors aren't always predicted from living examples, b) some important maize phenotypic traits were present at initial human exploitation and selection, and c) Pleistocene plant productivity should be considered a significant factor in the chronology of food production origins.
However, these populations have consistent differences in average age at maturity and length at age, and so their patterns of exploitation and selection also vary (Kendall and Quinn, in press).
Similarly, Dick Cheney had been a House member but his nomination in 2000 owed more to his executive experience in the White House and Defense Department and his shrewd exploitation of the selection process he oversaw for George W. Bush.
Identifications of construction wood at Early Classic Chan B'i, and Late Classic Atz'aam Na, are reported and discussed to assess forest exploitation and species selection over time.
The identification of resin from particular species used for specific purposes can offer insight into past use of natural materials and early adaptation to varying environments, plant exploitation practices and selection of resin-based materials, early knowledge of chemical properties of resins and the development of technologies, and cultural uses of resins for specific purposes.
Even though the proposed approach is affected by uncertainties and data scarcity, it showed how datasets and tools available today can be used to provide spatial estimates of RES suitability for exploitation, supporting the selection of areas that are intrinsically suitable for the design of low-carbon settlements.
Thus, paradoxically, exploitation rate and selection were inversely related.
Technology roadmapping is a process that has been applied effectively to the identification, selection, acquisition, development, exploitation, and protection of technologies in a variety of industries.
In a continental context, the evidence from these studies are consistent with the idea that in South America, early settlers modified ecosystems through the selection and exploitation of useful species, thus generating anthropogenic landscapes beginning as early as the Pleistocene Holocene transition.
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