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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: knightstorm on August 09, 2015, 10:04:50 am

Title: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
Post by: knightstorm on August 09, 2015, 10:04:50 am

http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/07/watermelon-may-be-the-most-unnatural-yet-delicious-fruit/ (http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/07/watermelon-may-be-the-most-unnatural-yet-delicious-fruit/)

Title: Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
Post by: Nemesis on August 10, 2015, 01:20:43 pm

Evolution in action.

Title: Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
Post by: Tulwar 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.

Title: Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
Post by: Nemesis on August 10, 2015, 02:08:50 pm

How cats domesticated humans.

Title: Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
Post by: Brush Wolf on August 10, 2015, 08:47:16 pm

How the wolf became a dog and then our partners.

Title: Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
Post by: Nemesis 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. 

Title: Re: Pretty interesting article on how crops can change
Post by: knightstorm on August 11, 2015, 02:55:02 pm

How humans developed lactose persistence.