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>>15911019
>People living in what is now Mexico had found corn 7000 years ago
Yes, and the fossil in my image is the type of Corn that existed there. My point was that whatever they're growing or breeding isn't going to be remotely recognizable compared to the modern animal even if it is related, not that animal husbandry or agriculture didn't exist.
Pigs for example weren't even considered *edible* until a relatively modern era because they carry so many diseases that are communicable to humans (hence the prohibitions against Pork in so many religions), and it wasn't until recently that stopped mattering.

Likewise many types of farmed plants are the product of thousands of years of genetic selection, modern Sugar Cane looks absolutely nothing like natural Sugar Cane, and pic related is what wild Eggplants look like.