The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
there's quite a bit of literature in in their anthropology anthropological literature of humans selectively breeding the all these plants that you mentioned the mango the papaya the breadfruit all that stuff absolutely has been hybridizing crossbred for by humans for thousands of years
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absolutely those those plants that that you have access to they've been cross-bred by humans for hundreds if not thousands of years not by the United Fruit Company but by the natives who lived there and they're like this papaya tree it has big fat papayas and this one has minuscule these are not as sweet I'm going to cut that one down and I'm going to graft this one and I'm going to crawl we've been doing that for thousands of years Paul and they have trouble the literature makes it very clear that that's something the humans have been doing for at least 12 000 years if not longer