Which has me wondering if the mere act of cultivation—selecting for higher crop yield, less bitter flavor, and the like—somehow had a collateral genetic effect on the fruit color, as with the Russian researchers who, breeding foxes selectively only for tameness, wound up with surprise mutant color variants and such domestic canine traits as lop ears.
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Date: 2025-05-23 03:19 am (UTC)