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Yes, the "symbiosis" is not unlike that relationship of humans to a herd of cows. The cows get fed for a while until we untimately butcher them. My question concerns the use of the word "discovered", like "Columbus discovered the New World when looking for India." This is different from the co-evolution of bees and flowering plants.

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by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Sep 9th, 2010 at 01:19:03 PM EST
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Which side does one take in the analogy?

Discovery is the observation or finding of something previously unknown. But I doubt if humans even 'discovered' agriculture. Hundreds of generations probably came between collecting wild plants for eating from the same spot each season, and making a connection between a seed and sprouting.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 9th, 2010 at 01:42:23 PM EST
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