Douay Posted May 10, 2004 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 287 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 39 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/09/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 10, 2004 Domestication is a lengthy process which I am not able to accept. 6-10,000 years ago people understood the genome, knew what end result they were looking for and decided to grow massive stands of an utterly useless crop for hundreds if not thousands of years in order to slowly develop a viable, domesticated crop plant. Yeah, sure. Several domesticated plants have no wild ancestors, they simply appeared 6-10,000 years ago. hmmmm Well, my question is this: People fit the definition of a domesticated species, who domesticated us? Was the causative agent of our domestication likely responsible for all other domestications? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerran Posted May 10, 2004 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 335 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 10 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/13/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/27/1975 Share Posted May 10, 2004 (edited) Which domesticated plants are you referring to? People never "understood" the genome thousands of years ago, they just took favorible characteristics from their best crops and kept seed from those to grow another with hopefully the same characteristics. After several hundred years they had the best characteristics that had shown up in those crops. Edited May 10, 2004 by Cerran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douay Posted May 11, 2004 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 287 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 39 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/09/2003 Status: Offline Author Share Posted May 11, 2004 Which domesticated plants are you referring to? People never "understood" the genome thousands of years ago, they just took favorible characteristics from their best crops and kept seed from those to grow another with hopefully the same characteristics. After several hundred years they had the best characteristics that had shown up in those crops. Corn for one had no ancestors. Grains - wheat, rice, sorghum, maize Tubers - potato, yam (sweet potato), manioc Fruits - apple, banana, orange, kiwi, grapes, tomato Spices - pepper, sugar cane only hundreds more I don't think we could do that now. Douay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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