- After decades of research, botanists, geneticists, and archaeologists have confirmed the wild ancestor of the domestic corn plant is a Mexican grass called teosint. They estimate that domestication occurred about 9,000 years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25creature.html 153 comments science
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