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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by mikro2nd on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:51AM (#25252517)
One of the strangest open questions about Tomatoes is: How did indigenous people in Mesoamerica look at a small, green, somewhat poisonous and awful-tasting berry and think, "I'll bet I could make something of this if I give it a few hundred generations of selective breeding."

Same question, really.

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Re:Compound found in the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca can gr... by KronisLV on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:21PM (#25257043)
I mean, it seems no less interesting to me when you put it like that. Sure, the process might have been a bit ad hoc at times and they might not necessarily have known about the particulars of what they'd end up with, but the history of farming and agriculture seems pretty interesting!
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