I was shocked at how much of the things we surround ourselves with contains corn! All of those things on the nutrition labels that I never knew what they were are derived from corn: lecithin, ascorbic acid, crystalline fructose lactic acid, lysine, and the list goes on. Even things that you would have never imagined have corn in them such as diapers, charcoal, and batteries. We literally are the corn people.
The evolution of corn was another fascinating topic, with its dependence on humans for its survival. With just a few mutations, this new species was formed that came to dominate the world of plants and adapt to make itself even more suitable for what humans, its sole source of survival, wanted it for. It's amazing that it needs something with thumbs in order to reproduce which means that as soon as the mutations took place, a human stumbled across it. Without that one interaction, corn as we know it would not be here to dominate our supermarket shelves.
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