Re: How grasses became grains

From: Ray Audette (rso456_at_airmail.net)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: 22 Aug 2004 21:20:00 -0700

pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<4129014C.5354@mindspring.com>...
> Ray Audette wrote:
> >
> > Grains do not exist in Nature.
>
> http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/history/native/graphics/rice.html

or see:
http://busycooks.about.com/library/lessons/blricesci.htm
"And wild rice is not a grain, but a seed of a grass native to North
America"

Grains are the seeds of cereal ( from the Latin Cerealis, "of Ceres"
goddess of agriculture) grasses.
According to my dictionary...wild grain is a contradiction of terms.

BTW, neoteny is a very common mutation in modern humans,
see:
http://ut.essortment.com/informationabou_rfsc.htm
"The reason down syndrome births increase as a woman gets older is
that her eggs she was born with are older and there is more chance of
error [mutation]while chromosomes are combining. The ratio of Down's
Syndrome births in women who are age 20 is one in 2000, in women who
are age 35 it is one in 380 births and in women who are age 40 it is
one in 100 births, and in women who are age 45 it is one in 30
births."

"There are more than 120 features that are recognized in Down's
Syndrome, some of these features are: a small head that is flat in the
back, small ears, more skin on the neck, upslanting eyes, flat bridge
on the nose with a fold of extra skin on the inner eye, and a large
tongue.

[ This description would also describe a highly neotenized wolf ( a
Pug).]

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin" ( down syndrome Neanderthals ;)
www.NeanderThin.com