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Evolution of potatoes Anon Mon Apr 8 06:12:41 2013 No.5669795 [Reply] [Original]

I was wondering, from a biological point of view, what was a potato before it evolved into a potato?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 06:18:58 2013 No.5669804 >>5669795 >epic may-mays/the shitpoasting is painfully obvious here's something on cultivation, it might not answer your question, not that it matters http://www.cambridge.org/us/books/kiple/potatoes.htm

>>	Anon Mon Apr 8 06:28:11 2013 No.5669809 >>5669804 Good read, full of potato goodness, thanks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 06:39:56 2013 No.5669818 you're mum

>>	Anon Mon Apr 8 06:54:41 2013 No.5669826 >>5669818 Er, do you not mean 'your'? I am not your mother.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 07:34:12 2013 No.5669867 >>5669826 don't deny it, mommy

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 07:56:57 2013 No.5669894 a prototato

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 08:26:26 2013 No.5669928 >>5669894 don't you mean, pretato

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 09:22:57 2013 No.5670003 oh my god. I just died of laughter, nice one

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 09:38:12 2013 No.5670020 File: 41 KB, 469x584, Animorphs_cae5db_3708161.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] more like... her....

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Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:13:42 2013 No.5670047

Many plants store nutrients in the stems of their roots and because they are underground and protected plants rarely evolve defense mechanisms to make them poisonous or difficult to digest. When humans migrated to the Americas they came across wild potatoes and began cultivating them, potatoes favored by humans were grown and traded, spreading throughout mesoamerican civilization resulting in the larger potatoes we are familiar with.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:14:57 2013 No.5670050 Protopotato

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:18:42 2013 No.5670053 File: 26 KB, 306x389, 1364544168952.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5670022

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:29:56 2013 No.5670063 >>5670022 That's actually a tambourine. Good thing you're here since /mu/ would hate you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:30:11 2013 No.5670067 >>5669795 It was a root. Duh. Root --> Nodule --> Potato.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 8 10:32:56 2013 No.5670069 >>5670063 I always that was lime.

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