“…In 2003, we embarked upon a microsite divergent edaphically, dubbed “EP,” deeply studied for SS in the blind mole rat, S. galili ( Hadid et al, 2013 ; Li et al, 2015 , 2016b , Lövy et al, 2015 , 2017 ), and the current study on wild barley, H. spontaneum , the progenitor of cultivated barley, which originated a new species of WB on the basalt, adapted to a siliceous world of volcanic basalt, derived from the calcareous chalk progenitor. In a parallel article, we described how wild barley initiated formation of a new species of wild barley at EC I, together with other six species from bacteria to mammals ( Nevo, 2014 ; Qian et al, 2018 ; Wang et al, 2020 ).…”