Independent Origins of Cultivated Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) in the Old World Tropics

Bee F. Gunn; Luc Baudouin; Kenneth M. Olsen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021143

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Independent Origins of Cultivated Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) in the Old World Tropics

Bee F. Gunn,

Affiliation Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Luc Baudouin,

Affiliation Centre International de Recherches en Agronomie pour le Développement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France
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Kenneth M. Olsen

* E-mail: kolsen@wustl.edu

Affiliation Biology Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Independent Origins of Cultivated Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) in the Old World Tropics

Bee F. Gunn,
Luc Baudouin,
Kenneth M. Olsen

Published: June 22, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021143

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Wonderful perspectives, but I've one little gripe

Posted by mikegprice on 25 Jun 2011 at 16:41 GMT

Greatly enjoyed and appreciated the paper, but wish to flag one weak claim, that coconuts were brought across the Pacific to Panama in pre-Columbian times. There's no credible evidence to support that belief. It just ain't so.

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