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The God Effect; America's religious conservatives aren't the only ones who object to science on spiritual grounds--so do Europe's Greens. The big winner is Asia.(Cover Story)
Byline: Lee M. Silver, Silver is professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton University and author of "Remaking Eden."
Many thousands of years ago, most of our ancestors were barely subsisting on whatever food nature provided for them in the form of wild plants and animals. Gradually, humans managed to turn the equation of survival in their favor. They did so by encouraging certain breeds or strains that had obvious advantages--bigger berries, more productive mammaries--over less promising varieties. It probably happened at first by accident, and later deliberately, by domestication. The result was to turn weeds into maize, wheat or rice; hairy ...
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