The Environment, Maize and the Human Genome
By Artifacts • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Environmental Science, Issue 3By Dylan Raithel
Corn, as it is today, is a result of a long history of humans changing the land, its flora and fauna. Corn produced today is the product of thousands of years of humans selectively breeding corn’s ancestors for beneficial traits. The corn we are all familiar with originates from the domestication of a grass called teosinte, [...]
