the top and bottom photos are of Zea mays ears that i grew on campus this past summer ( and which tasted pretty good)and the middle three are of northern tepehuan teosinte ears that are growing on the plant in my backyard...the family resemblance grows stronger all the time...Zea diploprennis leaves...northern tepehuan ears ( i can feel the seeds developing inside the husks...i think we need about another month ) a bunch of cousins...genetically linked distinct individuals...i can see why beadle thought teosinte was the only ancestor...i just don't know if he was completely correct in that...whatever the case i have become hooked on the morphological connections between ancestors and dometicates...it was sort of accidental this season...it will play a larger role in the next.
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