The Long History of Agricultural Genetics
I may sound long-winded, but let me start at the beginning. It was probably
20.000 years ago the Homo Sapiens began to domesticate plants—at least 10,000, but
I suspect much earlier than that. Some human discovered that finding seeds and grain
to eat was a difficult business, and he or she noticed that particular plants had big
heads on them. He also realized that if you plant a seed a plant will grow—at some
point somebody figured that out, which took some doing.
Then starting 9-10,000 years ago people begin to domesticate wheat, in the
Bekaa [a region in Lebanon] and in the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, and then ultimately
rice and other crops were domesticated.
They were genetically modifying organisms. That is what they were doing—they
were genetically interfering with the normal biological process. If you think about it, a
plant really has no incentives to generate high yields, as long as it produces seeds. As
long as......

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