I wish I could go back in time and tell every single native American agricultural scientist who made potatoes and corn and stuff so great as foods how great their work is and how many people it all feeds today and how much people love their food. Just show them that meme about “if you are ever having a bad day just remember all the different ways you can cook potatoes”. The ways we turn corn into candy and fuel. I love ancient humans
Still insignificant compared to the person who thought to put it in the cob.
people who made corn what it is today using gradual changes over thousands of years will likely be impressed
Oh, right, compare the achievements of a single team with the collective work of a large share of humanity for tens of thousands of years…
tbf, ten-thousand years, singular. And probably less than that, considering the time it would have taken for the first migrants to the Americas to actually populate the continent.
They were working at breakneck speed on that corn!
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To be fair, we could do much more nowadays. But then the GMO-is-the-antichrist-fraction shows up and burns your fields.
