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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not sure you can say the same thing about maize. That plant is a mutant freak considering what we did to it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You mean that by controlling humans, maize evolved to a stronger plant?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not stronger but more versatile. I'm not sure you call something that can't reproduce without human intervention stronger. The stalk is definitely stronger than the original teosinte plant, that trait was selected over time for bean support.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

So it sacrificed independence for symbiosis to assure a robust position in the ecology. The strains of escherichia coli in our gut depend on us to survive, but man, what a crib!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Particularly in the US most people are literally made of corn. Most foods have corn additives, the beef we eat is primarily fed corn before being slaughtered. On a molecular level we're corn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The corn won. We are corn.