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Posted Jun 11, 2004 by Is it to be or not to be? I replied: Oh why ask Me?
<<This origin is undisputed>>
Sorry, but references please!
That's a pretty important statement to make without any further reading to back it up.
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Posted Jun 12, 2004 by MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia
There is ample further reading listed at the bottom of the entry. I will provide specific references for individual facts if it is necessary.
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Posted Jun 12, 2004 by flyingtwinkle
sweet potato perhaps is a global phenomenoncosins having same root grew quickly all over simultaneously
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Posted Jun 12, 2004 by flyingtwinkle
sweet potato perhaps is a global phenomenon and its cousins having same root grew quickly all over simultaneously
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Posted Jun 13, 2004 by MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia
Sweet potato is not a global phenomena...the first European explorers in South America had never seen one before and called it Potato after one of the native names, batata. Later historians looking over the accounts of the first explorers figured out that those in Polynesia and South America were describing the same plant.
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Posted Jun 13, 2004 by flyingtwinkle
motdoc that is really a piece of research work
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Posted Jun 13, 2004 by MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia
Hey, if you or anyone else is interested you can check out the full text of my research at http://www.focusanthro.com/. I imagine it should be easy to find.
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Posted Jun 14, 2004 by Delicia - The world's acutest kitten
Cotton is another plant that crossed oceans in prehistoric times, apparently originiating in Africa, it reached Asia, where the socalled old-world-species G. herbaceum und G. arboreum grow, then somehow came to America, forming the new-world-species G. hirsutum, G. barbadense.
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Posted Jun 14, 2004 by MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia
Cotton is another question. There is legitimate evidence that Cotton's widespread natural range is the result of its ancient origins, in that it spread across the globe before the breaking apart of the continents.
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Posted Jun 15, 2004 by Delicia - The world's acutest kitten
Really? I knew sugar cane was mesozoic, but cotton i thought had migrated with people. Rather liked the idea.
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Posted Jun 17, 2004 by MotDoc, Temporarily Exiled to Tartu, Estonia
I don't remember the specific details on this one, but the fact that it has managed to differentiate into so many species by the present day indicates a more distant origin than the 10 kya when the first humans reached the Americas. I can look into it with more detail.
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