For ages, domestication has been portrayed as a uniquely human accomplishment, where species become domestic only through our deliberate control. This belief is supported by the fact that human ...

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Plant domestication in North America has no single ... Corn itself is descended from a grass called teosinte, the obvious appeal of which is so limited that some researchers once hypothesized ...

The data also showed that domestication in the two regions happened at roughly the same time—approximately 11,000 years ago—and also coincided with the initial stages of agricultural farming.