find out the history of corn
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Corn (Zea mays L) began its journey about 10,000 years ago at someplace in Mesoamerica and is greatly responsible for the initiation of formal agriculture and establishment of primitive societies. The ancient farmers started to select and manipulate the ancestors of this grain and developed and domesticated the corn we know today. Amazingly in a couple of centuries, the native Mesoamericans transformed the ancestors of corn into several
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Corn was originally domesticated in Mexico by native peoples by about 9,000 years ago. They used many generations of selective breeding to transform a wild teosinte grass with small grains into the rich source of food that is modern Zea mays.
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