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A second factor is that, just as the depletion of wild game tended to make hunting-gathering less rewarding, an increased availability of domesticable wild plants made steps leading to plant domestication more rewarding.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In Africa as elsewhere in the world, some peoples were much “luckier” than others, in the suites of domesticable wild plant and animal species that they inherited from their environment.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

A second factor is a corresponding, though less extreme, disparity between sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia in domesticable plants.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But any food production that did arise indigenously in Australia would have been limited by the lack of domesticable animals, the poverty of domesticable plants, and the difficult soils and climate.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Second, the New Guinea fauna included no domesticable large mammal species whatsoever.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond