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Nevertheless, Bogaard says, there's now more evidence that early farmers were growing wild plants before they were fully domesticated.

So this is what an expensive education, and fat public paychecks nets one:

"Early people were too stupid to quickly learn to grow only the domesticated varieties, rather than wild ones." Maybe they should have bought their seed at Co-op, instead of stubbornly saving, selecting, and replanting from whatever came up. Just where does she think the domestic varieties came from?

Wild varieties preceded domestic varieties; therefore, undomesticated types had to be grown first. Altogether now: "Duh!"

Oh, and don't forget to pay me on your way out.

Maybe in 10 or 20 years, they'll find scientific evidence that farmers raised crappy, stunted corn, before they raised pure stands of 16-row, super-sweet bicolor corn.