Information Regarding The Statement Made In The Book They Came Before Columbus

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The information regarding the statement made in the book They Came Before Columbus is important because it says that no adoption of a plant is simple and it requires knowledge of the plant’s ecological system and the use it has for humans. It has been found out that American cotton has African ancestry this would mean that Africans would have had to spend an extensive amount of time in the Americas teaching the natives about how to grow, cultivate and use the plants adopted. This is significant to Botany as a science because there may be certain functions that are different between the American and African versions as well as there may be diseases that may affect cotton in African climates that may not affect cotton in American

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