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Maize
#21
RE: Maize
Yes, death fathers don't pass on much info. And dead babies don't take things from the shelf. SFW?

And yes, I said it wasn't natural selection.

However, farmers habitually save seeds for the next year's crop, saving the best when they can. A hundred years of that would be a hundred years of improvement.
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#22
RE: Maize
But why would you cultivate teosinte to begin with?
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#23
RE: Maize
(April 8, 2018 at 2:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote: But why would you cultivate teosinte to begin with?

Guinea pig food? I'm not 9,000 years old.
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#24
RE: Maize
I suspect they were on their own.

Big Grin
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#25
RE: Maize
They cultivated it to eat it.  It's not corn.,.at least not as we know corn, but it's yield is impressive for a wild cultivar.  Ultimately, they may have ate it because there was tons of the shit lying around. It was also, as a bonus, amenable to their methodology and tools. We suppose the one informed the other but it may have been a two way relationship.

If you think corn was impressive....check out the chinampas.
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