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Offline knightstorm

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Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
« on: August 09, 2015, 10:04:50 am »
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Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2015, 01:20:43 pm »
Evolution in action.
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Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2015, 01:27:54 pm »
Quote from: Nemesis on August 10, 2015, 01:20:43 pm
Evolution in action.

It reminds me of how grasses, like wheat, learned to manipulate human being into cutting down the trees for them.  Plants are very, very sneaky.
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Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2015, 02:08:50 pm »
How cats domesticated humans.
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Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2015, 08:47:16 pm »
How the wolf became a dog and then our partners.
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Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2015, 09:03:46 pm »
The most recent theory I've read is that the wolf half domesticated itself by raiding human garbage dumps.  They had to evolve the ability to not run or attack when a human approached to distances that a true wild wolf would react to.  Then humans finished the job.  The Russian Silver Fox project shows how a fox (and presumably a wolf) could be bred to  dog in as little as 50 years.  A lot less than once thought.  Quicker perhaps with the half domesticated wolves they (apparently) started with, the guy who started the project may well have seen results. 
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Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2015, 02:55:02 pm »
How humans developed lactose persistence.
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