Artificial selection!
If you think that’s amazing - look up what bananas looked like before human cultivation. Basically any fruit or vegetable you eat is the product of centuries of humans carefully selecting what seeds to save and plant.
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CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoHow? Like… literally how?
I grow kale and it looks nothing like the plant in the OP. It looks like a regular bunch of kale.
Or is this like “all 6 vegetables come from one main vegetable”, kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 days ago
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
My wife and I had fried plantains at a Venezuelan restaurant a couple weeks ago. That shit was absolutely divine with beans, rice, meat, and a fried egg on top.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Just like dog breeds look very distinct, but cranked up to eleven with horrible deformities. Imagine if we continued to breed chihuahuas to have bigger heads and smaller bodies until they are 90% head. Or breed a breed of hound to be smaller with increasingly bigger ears until it’s 90% ears. They would still be dogs of the same species because they can procreate together.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Its exactly like that.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
This is what happened
reattach@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No, it’s cooler than that - all these vegetables are cultivars of the same species (Brassica oleracea). Citrus trees are different species with common origins.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Citron broke my brain. If you’re telling me this is mustard and only mustard, my brain might just die in confusion.
reattach@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Relevant xkcd (my first time posting an image - fingers crossed)
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xkcd.com/2827/