Corn in Central America
8700 BCE • Mexico
"The earliest known ancestor of corn is a variety of Mexican wild grass called teosinte. By suppressing the number of branching stalks in the species, farmers were able to grow larger ears with more kernels that more closely resembles corn today."
"More than 3,000 years of progress in agriculture," innovature.
Image: Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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