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The Adam Ragusea Podcast
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In the Andes, the Incans Built Their Empire on Frozen Potatoes
Scientists used to think that multiple far-flung indigenous American people domesticated wild potatoes independently. But a U.S. Department of Agriculture botanist working at University of Wisconsin, named David Spooner, made the case all domestic potato varieties have one single origin. 7,000 years ago, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, high up in the Andes Mountains,. On the border of modern-day Peru and Bolivia. That's where they all come from, the domesticated ones.
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