These new analyses suggest that maize may have been domesticated in Mexico as early as 10,000 years ago. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news. Follow: ...

Brazilian scientists have determined that ancient specimens of partially domesticated maize (Zea mays, also known as corn) originally from Peruaçu Valley in Minas Gerais state (Brazil) were the ...

Understanding the evolution and domestication of maize is important for many researchers. As one of the most important crops worldwide and one that appears very different from its wild relatives ...

Maize domestication, the commonly accepted theory goes, happened in the Balsas River Valley of south-central Mexico. Around 9,000 years ago, ...

Maize was first domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mexico between 10,000 and 6,000 years ago. By Helen Briggs. BBC News. Scientific analysis of a cob of corn dating back 5,000 years shows how ...

Maize domestication may have first occurred where this form of teosinte still grows, in the Central Balsas River Valley, which is located about 250 miles east of Guilá Naquitz.

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

Partially domesticated maize is found in caves in Minas Gerais state, Brazil Archeological samples of grains, straw and cobs collected from caves in Peruaçu Valley have primitive traits ...

Partly domesticated maize seeds were planted in fields where, in some places, they mixed with wild teosinte. Eventually, fully domesticated forms of maize emerged in different cultivation centers.

Native Americans alone domesticated nine of the most important food crops in the world, including corn, more properly called maize (Zea mays), which now provides about 21 percent of human ...