«The peach is an important part of human history, and it's important to understand how it became what it is today,» said Peter Wilf, a professor of paleobotany at Penn State and co-author of the article. (sciencedaily.com)
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences» paleobotany collection contains approximately 1600 specimens. (naturalsciences.org)
Although that claim later proved false — subsequent Near Eastern finds of wheat date back even earlier — it was the first recorded instance of serious paleobotany. (discovermagazine.com)