Maize, or corn, is grown all over the globe.  But it wasn’t always this way.  This plant has its origins in southern modern-day Mexico, with its parents being teosinte and tripsacum.  But the off-spring of these two parent plants was quite different than the maize we know and love today, much different.  In this episode we take a brief look at how maize we know today became what it is.  And of course, the Andes have their role to play.

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Intro/Exit music by: Kalx aka Kaliran: Andean Lounge, Scream of the Devil

Transition music by: Kike Pinto