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Domestication (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 5 months ago

Eat grass.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 72 points 5 months ago

You ever think about how corn is just really tall grass.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 5 months ago

Banana is Grass.

[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 51 points 5 months ago

Wheat, rice, barley, rye, corn, millet... Even bamboo is grass!

Well done grass. You really won this round.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We thought we were the ones domesticating grass when we invented agriculture, but the grass isn't the one that changed how it lives

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Upvote because the thought of rolling fields of bananas made me happy.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

I don't know if you knew this but the banana tree isn't a tree, but actually some kind of giant grass. So a field of bananas trees is technically a field of grass.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

No. While corn truly is in the Poaceae, bananas are in the Musaceae. They are not even in the Poales! They are in fact more closely related to ginger and bird of paradise plants (all in the Zingiberales).