Author: Yuri Detochkin
When humans settled in Central America (about 15,000 years ago), they didn't have to domesticate the avocado. Pick these wonderful fruits from the tree and eat. Save the bones and plant wherever you want. No fiddling around raising fruitful varieties from wild ancestors. These are not millennia-long attempts to domesticate corn.
But how did it turn out so well? The fact is that all the breeding work, even before people, was done by someone else, simple, but big. And people came to everything ready.
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Moral for plants: If you rely on co-evolution, try to diversify, don't put all the ฤhuacatl in one basket.
Moral for the Indians: when destroying a megafauna, check to see if there are any useful plants left after it that can be cultivated.
Moral for the next generation: When you're on a safari in Pleistocene Park (and I'm sure the extinct giants will be resurrected over time), walk up to the cute giant sloth and treat him to a ripe avocado.
Author: Yuri Detochkin.