We’ve Been Domesticating Avocados Since the Pleistocene. It Took Us 8,000 Years to Perfect Them
ResearchThe first signs of domestication date back 7,500 years, but it took millennia to shape the fruit into its modern form.
Read more »The first signs of domestication date back 7,500 years, but it took millennia to shape the fruit into its modern form.
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