Re: [nafex] [ARTICLE] Interesting tropical fruits and their contents

1) Thinking about the wave of human expansion in the Americas (and elsewhere). I wonder what other large temperate fruits may have been wiped out by humans after they exploded onto the scene. There should be a list somewhere, but a brief search of the internet didn't find it?
2) I wonder to what extent there's been positive selection even for wild apples shaped by human tastes -- I believe Indians rapidly took over as distributors of pawpaw seeds after coming to the Americas, and were responsible for a huge expansion in the territory of the American lotus.
3) For that matter, what about current negative selection pressures? The seeds of particularly large and good tasting wild raspberries in the proximity of humans are going to disproportionately wind up in the sewage system instead of being, well, pooped out in more congenial locations as they might have been in the past. 

On Monday, March 16, 2015 10:56 AM, Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca> wrote:

Actually, what is said there about tropical fruit
would also hold true for apples. The fruit of the
wild apple trees in Kazakhstan don't have much to
envy as far as sugar is concerned to the grocery
store fruit. The only thing is in the wild there
is a lot more variability in size, bitterness, astringency, sugar, and so on.

And in fact, it has been shown that selection of
apple trees on sugar content and flavor dates
from way before manking as bears and other large
mammals have been doing it by eating the best
tasting fruits and dissiminating their seeds...

Claude Jolicoeur

Author, The New Cider Maker's Handbook
http://www.cjoliprsf.ca/
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_new_cider_makers_handbook/

Le 07:05 2015.03.15, vous avez écrit:
>  See
>  <http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit>
>
>  Doug Woodard
>  St. Catharines, Ontario
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