2007-02-06 10:09:49 · 4 answers · asked by Memo Erdes 3 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Jerrod Diamond referred to this in his Pulitzer prize winning book, Guns Germs and Steel. There were certain nut trees like Almonds which sometimes have certain trees that had genetic mutations which rendered them without poison. There naturally occurs a small percentage that have this natural mutation. When ancient humans found these trees, they might have brought them home. Some nuts that were dropped began to form trees by the home sites and pretty soon these trees got nurtured and domesticated.
2007-02-06 17:17:05 · answer #1 · answered by JimZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Found an article about almonds for ya
2007-02-06 18:24:33 · answer #2 · answered by Batty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they poisonous to everybody, or just to humans?
2007-02-06 19:45:04 · answer #3 · answered by somebody 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dunno, somescientist cloned it without the poison glands!!!! :) or probably like anything else domesticated, people started using plants that were less and less poisonous to polinate other less poisonous plants? thats my guess, who knew almonds were poisonous?
2007-02-06 18:18:24 · answer #4 · answered by kevinjbendele 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋