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. . . One thing successful farmers did was plant more corn, helping maize build its kingdom. Corn helped the colonists and the colonists helped corn.

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[Corn] supplied [European colonist] with a ready-to-eat vegetable, a storable grain, a source of fiber, an animal feed, and heating fuel. Corn could be eaten fresh . . . or dried . . . stored over the winter and ground into flour. Corn could also be mashed and fermented to make beer or whiskey. No part of [it] went to waste.

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Corn is in places you would never think to look. It's in the wax that coats the other vegetables . . . the coating that makes the cover of a magazine shine. It's even part of the . . . building because the wallboard, the floor, and many other building materials are made with corn.

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. . . While humans use plants and other animals, it's not a one-way street. Plants and animals don't just sit around waiting for human beings to use them - they use us, too.

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When Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage [the the Americas] he described many wonderful things he had seen to Queen Isabella. One of his discoveries was a towering grass with an ear as thick as a man's arm, to which grains were 'affixed in a wondrous manner . . .' that grass was called maize, but today we know it as corn.

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Corn has managed to become the most widely planted crop in America - more than 80 million acres of farmland are planted with corn every year. Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings.

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About 40 percent of [people in Mexico's] calories come directly from corn, mostly in the form of corn tortillas.

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Todd Dawson, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley . . . says that when you look at the . . . average American's cells, 'we look like corn chips with legs.'"

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Corn spread because it could adapt (change) to the needs of human being. Of course, it needed human help.

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Corn began as a wild grass called teosinte . . . Teosinte still grows wild in some places in Central America, but if you saw it, you might not recognize it as the mother of corn.

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