As Sean Rafferty, professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany, explains in a recent 'Curious Kids' article, the discovery was likely an accidental stroke of genius. He points out that corn (or maize as it's known) has some pretty hardy components like the outer kernel shell that allowed ev...
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