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| By perhaps 5000 bc the indigenous peoples of southern Mexico first domesticated a wild variety of corn. The earliest corn plants bore only a few kernels on each stalk. By selectively breeding these plants over thousands of years, Native Americans developed a variety of types of domesticated corn, or maize, which bore large cobs holding hundreds of kernels. This illustration shows several varieties of maize. | ||||||
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| Native Americans of North America; Native Americans of Middle and South America; Archaeology | ||||||
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