I'm referring of course to Maize, Wheat, and Rice. What is it about this family that was so appealing for those picking out a plant to domesticate? Its not like they were in contact with each other and oculd be like "Yo, I picked Wheat and it rocks, you should pick Maize, its in the same family so I bet it'll be real good too" Esp considering I hear stories about how original wild maize had cobs no bigger than a finger, and it was only through the magic of selectively breeding that they became vast and bulbous like they are today.
Awesome cob. Great size. Look thick. Vast. Bulbous. Keep us all posted on your continued evolution with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakn' huge, vast, thick and bulbous you can get. Thanks for the motivation.
Scifi story where the intelligent species on Earth isn't humans, mice, or dolphins, but Poaceae family plants. Corn, Rice, and Wheat chuckling to themselves as they get the land-apes to cultivate the 3D pupae stage of their species for them en-masse, meanwhile filtering out all of the radio signal proof of their vast space empire to keep the humans in the dark.
Your individualistic understanding fails to grasp the vast bulbous collective nature of the Poaceae family.
I'm thinking it's some kind of discarded larval shell before they're mature enough to elude human comprehension. Still thinking it through.
That's pretty fascinating actually, thanks for sharing that
because I already had em.
That's right kids, I already 'had em
Tamed by Alice Roberts goes into the history of each of them (and other species), from earliest cultivation to modern times
i used to tame corn for Monsanto and those mfers are mean, they start popping off at you when they get scared
...and here we are, living in cities built for their proximity to farmland, working longer hours and taking less time for ourselves than in Neolithic days. That's the one big lie: we didn't create civilization as a result of domesticating corn... we did it because corn domesticated us.
cornspiracy.com/truthseekers
implying that wheat was not the entity which domesticated humans
I hear stories about how original wild maize had cobs no bigger than a finger
babby fingr
don't sleep on that other grass genus Sorghum. doesn't get a lot of radio play in "the west", but a true O.G. co-evolved plant. grain sorghum for easily harvested seed/flour, forage sorghum for material and ruminant feed, sweet sorghum for that rarity in human history: sweet, sweet syrup.
a true triple threat only challenged by the freakish multi-tool of brassicas.
I've heard talk that preserved domesticated sorghum seed was found african tombs older than 18,000 b.c.
