BIOL 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ebers Papyrus, Iva Annua, The Roots
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Domestication is arti cial selection wild domesticated (marsh elder, sun ower, squash) Domesticated seeds were bigger than their wild counterparts the seeds are not released from the parent plant teosinte > evolved corn corn hangs on to the seeds teosinte > didn"t. Wheat and other crop plants were chosen for mating in which had non-shattering in orescences: agriculture, the domestication of wild plants and the production of new varieties of plants required much biological knowledge. Have to learn about fertilization of seeds and the use of maneur. The biology of organism you need to know what u r dealing with the step pyramid at saqquara designed by imhotep some say the god of medicine asclepios die ed version of imhotep. Imhotep (c. 2700-2600 bc), architect, physician, polymath, might have written surgical texts. First record of case studies: speculates about the physiology, vessels, blood, mucous, etherial substances: breath of life and death.
