In addition to Purugganan and Gutaker, study authors include other members of the Purugganan laboratory at the NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, and collaborators at Pennsylvania State University, Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Manitoba, University College London, North-West University in China, University College Dublin, and the University of California San Diego.
What in the world did rice evolve from???
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Scientists can not forecast the weather. They don’t understand the climate. A real understanding of electricity eludes them. No useful new cereal grain has been create in historical times. The great mystery of Life remains. And we’re supposed to believe their fairytales of how rice came to be 4200 years ago.
The history of foods is quite interesting.
the 4.2ka event seems to have been responsible for the collapse of some of the world’s greatest ancient civilizations: Old Kingdom Egypt, the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, the Liangzhu culture in China, and the Indus civilization in modern-day India and Pakistan.