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minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThats a teosinte seed; teosinte is the grass ancestor of corn that still grows in Mexico.
minus-squarecredo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSo its the corn that is genetically modified.
minus-squareadr1an@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAncestor is not the same as non GMO. One could say that primates in Madagascar are ancestors to human. But there’s no human population that is either GMO or went through the process of selective breeding.
minus-squareAniki@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago selective breeding I wonder, isn’t sexual selection a form of “selective breeding”?
Thats a teosinte seed; teosinte is the grass ancestor of corn that still grows in Mexico.
So its the corn that is genetically modified.
Ancestor is not the same as non GMO. One could say that primates in Madagascar are ancestors to human. But there’s no human population that is either GMO or went through the process of selective breeding.
I wonder, isn’t sexual selection a form of “selective breeding”?