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“There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows,” he said. “There’s no long-stemmed roses growing in the wild (although we don’t eat roses). You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it’s not as large, it’s not as sweet, it’s not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it.” Instead, he said, humans have employed artificial selection to modify their foods ever since they began cultivating them. “We are creating and modifying the biology of the world to serve our needs,” deGrasse Tyson said. “I don’t have a problem with that, because we’ve been doing that for tens of thousands of years. So chill out.”
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:44:25 +0000

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