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Guest Column: BioBlog — From the Balsas Valley to your dinner plate

Editor's Note: This piece was originally published online in the UNM BioBlog on Nov. 23, 2017, written by the students of the Biology Department’s BioBlog class. This is part of our project to help connect the Daily Lobo audience to more members of our community. When you look down on your Thanksgiving dinner plate, do you see a distortion of evolution? If not, you should. What we consider to be corn today is more robust than what was eaten by early settlers, and is unrecognizable compared to its ancestor, teosinte. A recent UNM BioBlog discusses how and why teosinte, a wild grass that produces a small, 2-inch “cob,” evolved into modern corn.

The Setonian
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Guest Columnist — BioBlog: Middle Pleistocene or Middle Earth?

Editor's Note: This piece was originally published online in the UNM BioBlog on Sept. 27, written by Amelia Villaseñor. This is part of our new project to help connect the Daily Lobo audience to more members of our community. During the late Pleistocene, around 70,000 years ago, fossil and genetic evidence tell us that there were at least four species of hominins (human ancestors) inhabiting the planet. However, rather than elves and orcs, there were Denisovans, Neanderthals and, in both Middle Earth and the real one, humans and hobbits. UNM Biology postdoctoral researcher Amelia Villaseñor discusses these near-human creatures that our direct ancestors encountered in the UNM BioBlog.

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